There’s this quote that Timothy Chalamet said in a Dune interview that really stucks with me and I think about it from time to time:

“You could be the master of your fate, you could be the captain of your soul… but you have to realise that life is coming from you and not at you… and that takes time”

– Timothy Chalemet in IGV Presents’ Dune Interview

You can watch the interview where he said the quote here:

The original verse is from the poem “Invictus” by Ernest Henley which you can read here at poetryfoundation.org