Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas 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
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