Sometimes we are too busy trying to get through a closed door that we miss the open window beside it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“…young people without arms and legs. They’re the ones who had the fortune or perhaps the misfortune to survive.” — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears,… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
“The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for… — Debbie Gilliland Copy Share Image
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Don't get jealous when you see your ex with someone else because we were always told to give our toys to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, we are the architect of the fortune or misfortune that befall us in life. Stop! Take time to make a… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
