Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come. — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. — George Washington 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
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
