Abundance Quote by Clay Shirky

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

— Bias of Priene

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the…

— Wallace Carothers

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in…

— Benjamin E. Mays

There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too…

— Michael Shannon

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive…

— Orison Swett Marden

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

— Jules Renard

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

— Voltaire