“O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?” IfsMenFatherChanceSonBrotherBearsSuperiorsStationsTyrantsDescent Book:The Moral Discourses of Epictetus Source: The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
“Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.” WellsNextChanceLevelsBearsThirdsSellingInvestorsBullsSold OutBull Markets Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly” DoeAbleChanceGraceSpecialBearsGloryDrawsSaintBelieverServantBreastsBowsVentureAfflictionArrowsErrands Author:Joseph Caryl
“There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.” MindMomentsEyeCertainChanceViewsBearsRemainsPlantErrorsImpressionThrowingDelicateFinestLeafsVeinsInsectsAdmirableEntrancesEnsembleShrubs Author:Sophie Swetchine
“When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"” WayPersonsHelpingHumorHandsRunningFunnyChanceFireFiguresBearsAuthorityMy FriendsWoodsIntenseForestsRanAcidSwearingForest FiresAuthority Figures Author:Mitch Hedberg
“So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear."” StillsSometimesHandsChanceBearsBraveScaryFamiliarWildernessBe BraveChances Are Author:Cheryl Strayed