The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered if some of the misfortunes in our lives are payment for the wages of our sins while we… — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne 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
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves.… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all… — Bill Vaughan 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
![“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.” quote by Xunzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbf/xunzi-35969_avoiding_misery-is-evil-quarreling-a-misfortune-t_3116798.jpg)
![“[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bd/vincent-de-paul-1676_blessed_t-hese-losses-of-the-church-in-the-past_2035339.png)
![“Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.” quote by Marjorie Fleming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad1/marjorie-fleming-34788_advantage_many-girls-have-not-the-advantage-i-have_180103.png)
