#vicissitudes

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#already #am #any #exhausted #had

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#consists #craft #employing #genius #gift

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. ↗

— Maggie Kuhn

#disappointments #disease #illnesses #kinds #old

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese people #development #kinds #people #religious