Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Goethe
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  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 Goethe
  1. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  2. But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.

  3. So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

  4. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

  5. I call architecture 'petrified music'.

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