Wisdom of fate

Lines that hit a chord from THE RAMAYANA
Translated by Ramesh Menon
"Think of time, Bharata: how she carries us along, helpless, on her mysterious currents. Her ways and her purposes are always secret, and just hers to know. What is gathered today is scattered without warning tomorrow...

Nothing except change is permanent in our lives, and nothing but death is final in this world. Death walks at our side on every trail; he wrinkles our skin and turns our hair white. We delight in each sunrise and sunset, and forget that our lives are shortened by every one. The seasons come, each with its own allurements; but they take great slices of our lives with them. 

The relations of men are like ships crossing each other on the ocean; whether with fathers, mothers, wives, or children. We meet and are briefly together, only to part inevitably; if not in life, then surely in death. We must not make too much of our sorrow; it is natures way. And who are we to question the wisdom of fate."