Excellence Quote by Madeleine Thien

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was…

— Kaya McLaren

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there…

— J. Lynn

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“I think that one of the biggest flaws of mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.”

— Daniel Willey

“I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early death”

— Mindee Arnett

“It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came,…

— Justin Cronin

“I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary…

— Gretchen Rubin

“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of…

— Bret Harte

“It is not always a misfortune being overlooked.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald