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• Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

  Stuart Wilde

  Balance, Fortune, Feels

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

  Toni Morrison

  Fun, Block, Reading

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• I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Kings, Book, Fortune

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

  Jack Tatum

  Hard Work, Musician, Facts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when Mo says a great African, I was really moulded by my African experience, although I had the good fortune that by the time I was 24 I had studied and worked on three continents - Africa, the US, and Europe.

  Kofi Annan

  Years, Europe, Three

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• I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

  Andrew Levitas

  Majority, World, Able

  "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Work, Stones, Philosopher

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• Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wish, Fortune, Worthy

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Long, Healthy

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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• Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Sea, Dying

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

  Lew Wallace

  Funny, Men, Trials

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

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• We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

  Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.20, Meredith Books

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• 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.

  Ralph Marston

  Way, Fortune, Handle

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• The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

  Bryan Cranston

  Opportunity, Want, Fortune

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  Edward Abbey

  Rocks, Bird, Sun

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.186, University of Arizona Press

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• In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

  Cyrus the Great

  Kindness, Adversity, Men

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• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  Karen Kain

  School, People, Generosity

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

  Andrew Harvey

  Yoga, Heart, Genius

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Voice, Be Kind

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

  Edmund Hillary

  Home, Desire, Proud

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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