Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson 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
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates Copy Share Image
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. — Agathon Copy Share Image
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good… — Jean de La Fontaine 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
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus 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
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
