Accept the life and events that fate has given you. Love the people you are meant to live with — love them truly. A tool works well when it fits its purpose, even if the person who made it is gone. But with natural things, the power that shaped them still lives within them. We should respect this power more. If we live according to its purpose, we can think that all is well with us and matches our deepest wishes. This is how the universe itself finds happiness.
Fit and accommodate thyself to that estate and to those occurrences, which by the destinies have been annexed unto thee; and love those men whom thy fate it is to live with; but love them truly. An instrument, a tool, an utensil, whatsoever it be, if it be fit for the purpose it was made for, it is as it should be though he perchance that made and fitted it, be out of sight and gone. But in things natural, that power which hath framed and fitted them, is and abideth within them still: for which reason she ought also the more to be respected, and we are the more obliged (if we may live and pass our time according to her purpose and intention) to think that all is well with us, and according to our own minds. After this manner also, and in this respect it is, that he that is all in all doth enjoy his happiness.