#misfortune

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. ↗

— Loretta Young

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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. ↗

— Walt Alston

#consequences #forget #look #misfortune #panic

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#curse #destiny #divine-intervention #fate #fortune

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#happiness #life #misfortune #life

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#misfortunes #love

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#children #labours #make #misfortunes #more

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ↗

— Aristotle

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ↗

— Aristotle

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