You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
More German Proverbs:
A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.German
A good conscience is like a soft pillow
German
Pay in like coin.
German
Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving.
German
Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the wants great.
German
He that finds fault wants to buy.
German