#fortune

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#challenge #failing-forward #fortune-in-failing #forward #higherlife

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile. ↗

— Sal Martinez

#experiences #fortune #universe #wisdom #experience

If I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away in pining and longing for your former good fortune. It is the loss of this which, as your imagination works upon you, has so corrupted your mind. I know the many disguises of that monster, Fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion ↗

— Boethius

#friendship

We don’t need eyes to judge people’s beauty; but unfortunately we judge them as we see. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#judgement #love #people #real-love #beauty

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #misfortunes #proof #love

Like special fungus, your love will grow in strange places ↗

— Lauren Bjorkman

#love

My fortune-teller read my palm and said I would die young and unmarried, but that was before my hand got scarred. So as soon as that knife-wielding maniac gets out of jail, I’ll propose to her again. ↗

— Bauvard

#fortune #funny #humor #marriage #marriage

Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity could describe the exquisite pleasure she actually felt at the thought of her own comparative paradise. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#love-life #love

Be ready when your chance comes never fall back fight for your loved ones. ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#love