It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather… — Shusha Guppy Copy Share Image
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If suffer some misfortune, then think: "The Lord sees my heart, and if it pleases Him, it will be well both for… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past,… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie 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
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our… — Kris Carr 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
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
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
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
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