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  • I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  • The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  • I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

    Eye   Men   House  
    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
  • Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

    Fun   Party   Fortune  
  • Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

  • Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

    Voice   Soul   Desert  
  • It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

    "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.
  • Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

  • Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

    Hate   Men   Evil  
    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80
  • I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

    Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged, with Kossuth's express sanction, by F. W. Newman”, p.30
  • Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.

    Life   Fortune   Ifs  
  • If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

  • It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

    Thinking   Mind   East  
  • Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

    Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36
  • Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

    Children   Cry   Beast  
  • Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

    Men   Source   Fortune  
  • Misfortunes should always be expected.

  • We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

  • Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  • History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

    War   History   Tourism  
    'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3.
  • The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  • Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

    Future   Law   Heaven  
  • What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

    Adversity   Bird   Humans  
  • Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

    Lying   Believe   Men  
  • Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

    Suffering   May   Said  
  • Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

    David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult
  • Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

    Grateful   Facts   Should  
    Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken
  • After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

    Beautiful   Lying   Rain  
  • The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

    Men   Rights   Majority  
    "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Peter Gast and Elisabeth Nietzsche, Sec. 872 (Notebook W I 1. Spring 1884, KGW VII, 2.97-8, KSA 11.101-2), 1888.
  • There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

    People   World   Fortune  
    Source: collider.com
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