Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal… — Frederic Chopin 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
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune.… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift 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
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
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