Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Fate being unfavorable (or without God's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish).

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.