Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Edith Wharton
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  1. What's meant to be will always find a way - Trisha Yearwood

  2. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. - Marcus Aurelius

  3. Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves. - Marissa Meyer

  4. Amor Fati — “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  5. Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. - Rosamund Hodge

More Quotes By Edith Wharton
  1. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  2. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  3. Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me.

  4. Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  5. To know when to be generous and when firm–that is wisdom.

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