Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Who sacrificed their happiness for others happiness, they are not less than divinity, and that is your misfortunes,, nonentity did not bear… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. — Marie Leszczynska Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone.… — Nido R Qubein Copy Share Image
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
