George Eliot Quotes About Fate
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
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Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
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Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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