Misfortunes Quotes - Page 32

• 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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.16, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• 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.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Shapes, May

  "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.

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• 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?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• 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.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pain, Storm, Break Out

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Fall, Feelings

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

  Sophocles

  Sweet, Forget, Short Time

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

  Grant Allen

  Education, Boys, Should

  Grant Allen (1894). “Post-prandial Philosophy”

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• 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.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Sex, Struggle, Gum

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• 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.

  Jean Paul

  Wine, Men, Age

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• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Kings, Moving, Black

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Encouragement, Past, Yesterday

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• 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.

  Nido R Qubein

  Play, Gone, May

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• 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.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Self Esteem, People

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

  Max Beckmann

  Trying, Quality, Figures

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Realizing, Form

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

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Past, Treasure

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

  Charles Simmons

  Evil, Wells, Prompts

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• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Joy, Being Sad

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• They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

  Markus Zusak

  Stupid, Fate, Clouds

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• Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Chance, Hours

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• The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

  Albert Camus

  Pestilence, Duration, Truth Is

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

  Robert Greene

  Men, Emotional, May

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.10, Profile Books

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• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Evil, World

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 348), 1974.

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• Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Character

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• We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Abuse, Suffering

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