Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.
-Paulo Coelho
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
It is against nature to pre-decide, what is to be done the next moment. But
surprisingly, people even decide right from what they aspire to become in future
to when should they visit temples and observe fasts. Now, if you act so much
against nature, of course you will have to bear the brunt of it.
-Deep Trivedi
When even the smallest of an incident happening to us is a continuity of the
millions of events happening past thousands of years, what calculations have
you engaged your brains in? The person who understands the calculations of
how the occurring events are shaping the circumstances, surely attains whatever
he desires, without any efforts as and when he wants.
-Deep Trivedi
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Khalil Gibran