#fortune

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#endurance

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#been #escaped #fortune #fortunes #great

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#bring #changes #deal #especially #forces

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad times #changes #fortune #good #good and bad

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#consists #felicity #fortune #inward #man

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

#brake #great #kind #man #mask

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

#fortune #gentleman #large #lived #name

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#early #life #misfortune #necessary #only