'Amor fati' is supposedly one of Nietzsche's central philosophies... but it's also fairly elusive. All I can figure is that it's roughly translated to 'love of destiny' and somehow involves individualism? Can anyone help clarify this, to any extent?

"Amor Fati" translates

"the love of the divine injunction"

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"the love of heavenly determination"

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"the love of god's command"

For the New Year. I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: Congo, ergo sum. Today everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my mind this year-a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful-I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -The Gay Science (http://www.cwu.edu/~millerj/nietzsche/gayscience.html)


"My formula for greatness in man is amor fati: that a man should wish to have nothing altered, either in the future, the past, or for all eternity. Not only must he endure necessity, and on no account conceal it-all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity-but he must love it." -Ecco Homo (http://www.cwu.edu/~millerj/nietzsche/eh.html)