#fortune

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

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

Fortune love you. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good-fortune #luck #love

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

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

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