There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Camus, Albert

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
- Confucius

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
- Nagarjuna

But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?
- Pope, Alexander