trying to find a quote about not knowing one's fate

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<p>there’s a quote I vaguely remember about the fear or difficulty of not knowing what’s going to happen to you. i don’t remember who said it though. does anyone know it?</p>

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<p>Doc Brown said something about in Back to the Future- sorry, couldn’t resist.</p>

<p>Perhaps you’re thinking of Shakespeare: “it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”.</p>

<p>Or maybe your thinking of the old song “Que sera, sera”- sorry couldn’t resist again.</p>

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<p>“When ever you call me, I’ll be there. I’ll be around”.</p>

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<p>thanks, but I don’t think any of those were the quote that I’m looking for.</p>

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<p>While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
-Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) </p>

<p>Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
-John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647 </p>

<p>Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939</p>

<p>It’s choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
-Jean Nidetch </p>

<p>i just did a quick search on google so sorry if those quotes aren’t what you’re looking for. here’s a link with some fate realated quotes…<a href=“http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=60[/url]”>http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=60&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always – eventually – manages to spring back into its old familiar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.”

  • Terry Pratchett, in ‘Mort’</p>

<p>"Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else – coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.</p>

<p>He used destiny a lot. As a tool for his plays it was even better than a ghost. There was nothing like a bit of destiny to get the old plot rolling. But it was a mistake to think you could spot the shape of it. And as for thinking it could be controlled . . ."
-Terry Pratchett, in ‘Wyrd Sisters’</p>

<p>“Fate is odd. Rummy. You can’t say it isn’t. Lots of people have noticed it. And one of the rummiest things about it is the way it seems to take a delight in patting you on the head and lulling you into security and then suddenly steering your foot on to the banana-skin. Just when things appear to be going smoothest, bang comes the spanner into the machinery and there you are.”

  • P.G.Wodehouse, ‘Eggs, Beans and Crumpets’</p>
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<p>I love Terry Pratchett!</p>

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<p>the world is a stage and we are merely players</p>

<p>well, that’s the general gist of it. You could use it to say our lives are already scripted out for us, we can’t control the outcome, etc…</p>