What do I mean, you ask, by accepting everything as it comes, and trying to find out the reason of its coming?
Why, I mean what I say.

Each circumstance that happens to each one of us brings its own special lesson and meaning--forms a link or part of a link in the chain of our existence.

It seems nothing to you that you walk down a particular street at a particular hour, and yet that slight action of yours may lead to a result you wot not of.

'Accept the hint of each new experience,' says the American imitator of Plato--Emerson.

If this advice is faithfully followed, we all have enough to occupy us busily from the cradle to the grave." Prince Ivan looked at Zara, who sat quietly thoughtful, only lifting her bright eyes now and then to glance at her brother as he spoke.
"I tell you," he said, with sudden moroseness, "there are some hints that we cannot accept--some circumstances that we must not yield to.
Why should a man, for instance, be subjected to an undeserved and bitter disappointment ?" "Because," said Zara, joining in the conversation for the first time, "he has most likely desired what he is not fated to obtain." The Prince bit his lips, and gave a forced laugh.
"I know, madame, you are against me in all our arguments," he observed, with some bitterness in his tone.