The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason. — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
One must not try to trick misfortune,but resign oneself to it with good grace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said… — Cornelia Funke 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
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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