The gods have no hands in this world but ours. If we fail Them, where then can They turn? - Lois McMaster Bujold

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall — when you fall, you’re going to fall like a starving man.

So far from a trudge, she seemed to find the task tolerably amusing.
“Oh, languages aren’t work,” she explained cheerily. “They’re a game. Now, economics, that’s boring.”