Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Trials come into our lives when God is trying to teach us, lead us or correct us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the… — Robbie Ross Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. Sometimes knowing when to give up… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“So much darkness made her uneasy. There was definitely a weight pushing down on the world. Misfortune was always hovering close around… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The police do not decide the killer in a crime the police determines the killer in a crime and that is why… — Gayla Leach Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life… — G.G. Renee Hill Copy Share Image
“The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If asked how one’s business is doing, the customary response is: ‘Could be worse,’ or ‘Just about surviving.’ Anything more upbeat is… — Graeme Macrae Burnet Copy Share Image
“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
When Life Hits With Problems Or Misfortunes It Shapes Our Belief System And Makes Us Think Differently. When You Believe In Something… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“According to Islam, whenever we are struck by illness or misfortune or someone hurts us, there is a higher purpose behind it,… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
