#fortune

Fortune love you. ↗

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#luck #art

I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fortune #king-lear #william-shakespeare #nature

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#fate #fortune #life #death

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#misfortunes #women #women

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fortune #wealth #pleasure

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗

— Roman Payne

#europe #fortune #fortunes #gypsies #gypsy

Oh, I am fortune's fool! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #fortune #luck #shakespeare

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. ↗