Accepting Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

— Michel de Montaigne

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down…

— Michel Faber

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks…

— Lauren Mackler

“Most people avoid confronting family issues because they can't see a way to change the relationships they find so frustrating. The frustration leads them,…

— Monica McGoldrick

Unhappiness all the time to wrap themselves in the flames are better than you treat the pain that your family because you are at…

— Mak_786

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the…

— Jodi Picoult

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

— Aesop

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know…

— Ross Macdonald

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find…

— Christopher Reeve