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#fortune

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I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.


Wayne Gerard Trotman


#encouragement #friendship #good-fortune #heroes #interaction

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.


Julie Andrews


#fortune #good #good fortune #great #happened

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.


Leo Tolstoy


#life

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will


Stella Gibbons


#good-fortune #happiness #long-life #age

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

I am even The natural fool of fortune.


William Shakespeare


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

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

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


Andrew James Pritchard


#fame-and-fortune #life-skills #popularity #talent #art

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life


James De Mille


#disappointment #horror #misfortune #sadness #life

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






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