Brain Food #476

Fate's hand

A simple thought to start the week: life is not dictated by the events that happen in it, but by the way we respond to them.

In Devotion, an examination of writing as she explores Paris and her own mind, Patti Smith states, “Fate has a hand but is not the hand.”

When the world may seem out of control, we can still control how to be in it.

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