Amor fati

Latin for "love of fate," from "amor" (love) and "fati" (of fate, from "fatum"). Though the Stoics held a similar idea, the phrase was made famous by Friedrich Nietzsche, who called it his formula for greatness in a human being.

  1. noun phrase · /AH-mor FAH-tee/

    A stance of not merely accepting but loving everything that happens, including suffering, as necessary to one’s life.

    A handle for a radical form of acceptance that goes past resignation into embrace — reach for it to name the posture of wanting your life exactly as it was, scars included.

    Rather than wishing the illness away, she practiced amor fati, treating even the hard year as part of a life she would choose again.

    Stronger than equanimity, which is calm acceptance; amor fati asks for active love of one’s fate, not just untroubled tolerance of it.