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“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.”

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Book:In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die

Source: In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die

“Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.”

Ifs Life Fortune Love Life Misfortunes

Author:Silent lotus

“...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.”

Ifs Want Life Enjoy Fortune Oneself Good Fortune

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.”

Men Life Fortune

Author:Amadeo Giannini

“Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.”

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Author:Fay Weldon

“Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”