#misfortune

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ↗

— Christopher Morley

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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#carelessness #like #looks #lose #may

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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

— Anthony Trollope

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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