“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“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 · Meditations
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.” — Epictetus · Enchiridion
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!” — Friedrich Nietzsche · The Gay Science, 1882
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.” — Friedrich Nietzsche · Ecce Homo, 1888