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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Eric Butterworth
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Ambrose Bierce
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
Proverb
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Charles Montesquieu
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
Christopher Hitchens
Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
Source Unknown
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
Samuel Johnson
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
Ovid
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
