Vicissitudes Quotes

49 Vicissitudes quotes by 46 unique authors

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever… — Giordano Bruno
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our… — Nathaniel Branden
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who… — Marcus Aurelius
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. — Maggie Kuhn
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. — Jean Baudrillard
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or… — William James
Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building,… — Paulo Coelho
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that… — George Eliot
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as… — Thomas Sowell
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its… — Seneca the Younger
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people… — Bill Moyers
All elements of human life are plagued with boundless vicissitudes, all that is, except for love. - John Lars Zwerenz — John Lars Zwerenz
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism — Richard John Neuhaus
I start to feel like I cant maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady, unvarying friend of man. — Unknown Author
It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,… — Henry David Thoreau

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