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“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

People Able Turns Events Lucky Advantage Accidents Foolish Clever Reap Disadvantages So Lucky Unlucky

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.”

Men Feels Earth Mystery Events Accidents One Man

Book:Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

Source: Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.”

Causes Events Wind Unity Blow Accidents

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.”

Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Feelings Together Blood Events Accidents Cousin Your Best Friend Like Family Your Cousin Traumatic Events

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.”

Men Real Reason Causes Chance Events Ignorance Accidents Agents Evident

Author:Adam Clarke

“God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.”

Chance Cases Events Blind Accidents Capricious

Author:R. C. Sproul

“We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.”

Waiting Car Events Cancer Accidents Priorities Granted Awake Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Diagnosis Shattering Car Accident Sleepwalking Cancer Diagnosis Life For Granted Taking Life For Granted

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.”

Ends Moments Seems Behinds Our Lives Events Raises Mere Chaos Leaving Accidents Isolation Overwhelming Contemplating Succession

Author:Karl Jaspers

“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.”

Men Humans May Certain Causes Ability Opinion Virtue Events Willing Thousand Claims Fortune Rate Accidents Merit Imaginary Advancement Scarce Concur

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.”

Humans Events Mere Accidents Greek Cosmic Human Experience Spectators Chorus Sideshows Greek Chorus

Author:Terence McKenna