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• On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

  Rumi

  Character, Envy, Doe

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• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Powerful, Science, Tools

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Thinking, Chance

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• Watching them opens your inner being. Just watching them opens your inner eye and that is the real eye; the outside eyes are of not much use. You are fortunate that you don't have them. You are blessed! Blessed are the blind for they shall not be forced to see this ugly world! And it is really ugly - believe me!

  Rajneesh

  Real, Believe, Blessed

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• What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

  Kamala Harris

  Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

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• Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come in contact with a buddha`s silence will be transformed; they will know what creativity is. He has not done a thing and miracles have happened. He has not uttered a word and the message has been heard. He has not moved, but he has transformed you. He has not even touched you, and you are no longer the same.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Creating, Silence

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• Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

  Dalai Lama

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Moving

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• In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

  Jeff Miller

  Christmas, Home, Holiday

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• We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

  Dan O'Neill

  Brother, Caring, Helping Others

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• There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.

  Nicolas Steno

  Brain, Littles, Needs

  "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.

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• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  Gary Fisher

  War, Fall, Dark

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• The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Selfish, Heart, Greed

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• We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Kissing, Night

  Pablo Neruda, “Drunk As Drunk”

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• We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

  Thubten Chodron

  Confusion, Mind, Able

  Thubten Chodron (2016). “Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.

  Joan Antidea Thouret

  Jesus, Names, Suffering

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• [To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Science, Men

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• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace

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• To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Spiritual, Learning, Discipline

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• I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

  Owen Hart

  Stupid, Wrestling, Making Money

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• We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

  Jerry Garcia

  Men, Drug, Littles

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• Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
  Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
  Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
  Laughter always follow tears
  Blessed are those who understand
  Life blossoms wherever water flows
  Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Laughter, Blessed

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• Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

  Roger Moore

  Children, Growing Up, Made

  "Showbuzz/ Queen honors 007 (Roger Moore) and Tom Jones". www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• [A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessed, Decision, Special

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