#befall

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. ↗

— Toby Young

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#befall #life #many #planet #single

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#depends #happiness #less #life #take

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#befall #boy #bring #consequence #few

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. ↗

— Paul Elmer More

#defense #doubting #god #good #his

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. ↗

— John Muir

#air #alone #befall #course #eternal

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#befall #complete #confidence #faith #fear

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. ↗

— Phaedrus

#evil #greater #lest #present #submit