Circumstances over which I have no control.

Many of the things I would wish to do are beyond my control.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Just because something happened that was outside of your control doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility to deal with it

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There

"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons."

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

The lives of most men and women are blighted by problems they cannot solve. Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, “I’m in charge,” in truth most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. — Maya Angelou

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Like me, for instance. Right now.