Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan
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  2. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. - Thomas Merton

  3. But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves. - Mikhail Bulgakov

  4. ...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves. - Suzanne Young

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  1. If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

  2. Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie's mom down the block might say, 'Honey, look both ways before crossing the...

  3. Dementia was like a truth serum.

  4. My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate"...

  5. Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

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