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“Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”

Form Opportunity Failing Doors Habit Defeat Temporary Misfortunes Slipping Think And Grow Rich Sly Think Rich Grow Rich Back Doors Temporary Defeat

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

May Art Happens Given Materials Shapes Including Misfortunes Humiliation Clay Embarrassment Raw Materials

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?”

Men Ends Body Earth Joy Night Loss United Creation Sorrow Gains All Things Fortune Dust Breasts Life And Death Taoism Misfortunes Limbs Good Fortune Trifles Beginnings And Ends

Author:Zhuangzi

“Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.”

World Whole Pain Pleasure Existence Break Fortune Bounds Storm Tiny Excitement Realms Misfortunes New World Shells Break Out Pain And Pleasure

Book:The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)

Source: The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)

“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”

Humans Race Crime Human Race Misfortunes

Book:Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

Source: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

“Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.”

Ifs Kind Made Stills Important Feelings Together Remember Fall Memories United Important Things Honour Misfortunes

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.”

Forget Sweet Misfortunes Short Time

Author:Sophocles

“What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!”

Should Education Boys Misfortunes Interfere Compelled Schooling

Book:Post-prandial Philosophy

Source: Post-prandial Philosophy

“A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.”

Ifs Made Form Life Is Sex Pleasure Struggle Source Appearance Vain Permanent Muscles Misfortunes Joints Compensation Gum Short Lived Collagen

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.”

Men Said Age Effects Wine Misfortunes

Author:Jean Paul

“It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.”

Moving Black Kings Edges Strikes Chess Opening Misfortunes Abyss Gambit

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.”

Thinking Looks Persons Difficult Victory Misfortunes Thank You Thankful Being Thankful Difficult Times Setback Milestone

Author:Bob Dole

“When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.”

Men Today Past Encouragement Fellows Competition Yesterday Misfortunes Fellow Man Benevolence

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.”

Ifs May Play Gone Circumstances Misfortunes Priceless Wherever You Are

Author:Nido R Qubein

“Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.”

People Self Problem Growth Wise Self Esteem Superiors Esteem Assets Misfortunes Growth Mindset

Author:Carol S. Dweck

“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”

Trying Quality Figures Fortune Accidents Misfortunes Comes And Goes

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.”

Persons Form Opportunity Realizing Misfortunes

Author:Napoleon Hill

“I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”

Past Memories Treasure Misfortunes Fortitude Martial Arts Inspirational Past Memories

Author:Bruce Lee

“It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.”

Wells Evil Decided Misfortunes Prompts

Author:Charles Simmons

“Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.”

Giving Mind Soul Self Sometimes Mother Strong Birth Misery Self Respect Breasts Misfortunes Nurse Distress Great Souls Stepmothers

Book:Marius

Source: Marius

“It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.”

Misfortunes Providence

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.”

Soul Friendship Blessing Unique Adversity Wilderness Misfortunes Remedy Without Friends

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.”

Way Fortune Handle Best Way Misfortunes Good Fortune

Author:Ralph Marston

“When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.”

Pay Worry Adversity Over You Misfortunes Being Thankful

Book:Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

“Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.”

People Men Should Happens Past Death Spirit Nations Grows Our Lives Seasons Command Grieving Misfortunes Wisest Great Spirit Best Of Me

Author:Kent Nerburn

“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.”

Wells Enough Silence Judgment Silent Wit Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth”

Believe Pain Turns Wealth Ambition Adversity Believe In Yourself Misfortunes Believe In You

Author:Tupac Shakur

“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.”

Knows Whole Happens Process Impossible Consequence Fortune Complexity Misfortunes Immense Good Fortune Integrated

Author:Alan Watts

“Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.”

Misfortunes Prudence Good Nature

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern king will fall into misfortunes,' and 'one who stops his ears so as not to hear the weak, shall himself cry, and there shall be none to hear him' (Prov. 13:17; 21:13).”

Christian Certain Fall Sin Cry Kings Weak Ears Orthodox Misfortunes Orthodox Christian Inhuman Severity

Book:The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)

“If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.”

Ifs Littles Courses Given Angry Pursue Misfortunes Warning Aggressive Self Defense Alertness Decisiveness Indignant

Book:Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

“We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.”

Love Eye Inspiring Tears Longing Silent Intense Misfortunes Confession One Love Vow

Author:Frederic Chopin

“To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.”

Wise Fate Brave Worthy Conquer Misfortunes Manhood Be Brave Being Wise

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!”

Ifs Giving Light Prayer Judging Perspective Praying Giving Up Weakness Ideals Eternity Guilt Charity Temptation Generosity Indifference Purity Misfortunes Not Giving Up Great Idea

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Reflect upon your present blessings”

Gratitude Blessing Grateful Misfortunes Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Being Thankful Gratefulness Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Thanksgiving Day Being Blessed Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Inspirational Gratitude Thankful For You Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Gratitude For Help My Blessing Love Gratitude Thanksgiving Inspirational Grateful For You Thanksgiving Thank You Love Thanksgiving Grateful Thankful Family Thanksgiving Grateful Inspirational Gratitude For Work Thanksgiving And Family Thankfulness For Love Thanksgiving Family Grateful Thanks Gratitude To Others Blessing You Things To Be Thankful Feeling Grateful Blessing To Others Blessed And Thankful Things To Be Grateful Family Gratitude Thankful For Blessings

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.”

Ignorance Misfortunes

Book:Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools

Source: Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools

“See your misfortunes as blessings.”

Blessing Misfortunes

Author:Marshall Sylver

“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”

Men Persons Wise Progress Blame Oneself Proof Ignorant Misfortunes Ignorant Person

Author:Epictetus

“Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.”

People Form Turns Situation Trouble Ordinary Advantage Negative Opposites Tragedy Shy Misfortunes Ordinary People Great People Personal Tragedy

Book:The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.”

Moving Turns Fall Blue Spots Hips Torture Misfortunes Pool Again And Again Purple Bruises Skateboarder

Author:Emile Hirsch

“I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.”

Thinking World Love Age Humanity Games Loses Powerful Watches Sacrifice Messages Survival Hunger Entertainment Misfortunes Warning Really Powerful

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.”

Men Has Beens Use Science Modern Healthy Instruments Refuse Physics Senses Experiments Accomplishment Misfortunes Artificial Scientism Modern Physics

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”

Use Passion Justice Fate Fruit Delight Painter Miserable Misfortunes Adore My Passion Baskets

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.”

World Made War Wanted Strong Honest War Of The Worlds Misfortunes World War One Honest Woman

Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

“It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.”

Men Important Order Views Liberty Fire Greater Media Objects Masters Terrible Presses Excellent Servant Misfortunes Engines License Accord Formidable

Author:James F. Cooper

“Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.”

World Reality Understanding Depth Misfortunes Exile Overview

Author:Stefan Zweig

“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”

Want Life Shows Education Teaching Adversity Oneself Libertarian Misfortunes

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

Wisdom Wise Fool Philosophical Adversity Prosperity Misfortunes Epicureanism

Book:Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

“Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.”

Men Reason Courses Interest Wise Highest Misfortunes Epicureanism Course Of Life

Author:Epicurus