"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."

Fate, Misfortune, Fortune, Perception

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"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Fate, Fortune, Cruelty, Life

"Fate demands that we continue suffering, until we willingly seek out and discover the sacred path of righteousness. Until we surrender to the sameness of life, we are unable to experience the absolute ground zero of reality. Only by surrendering our desires, by readjusting our consciousness to a state undefined, unbound, and unmotivated by passion and desire, will we experience life transformed."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Fate, Suffering, Path, Righteousness

"Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fate, Friendship, Hope, Positivity

"Destiny is what you make it, otherwise you are at the mercy of fate."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Fate, Destiny, Choice, Control

"Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fate, Grace, Suffering, Life

"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fate, Enemy, Hope, Courage

"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Fate, Marriage, Destiny, Choice

"Even "meant to be" takes work."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Fate, Effort, Love, Destiny

"The gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Fate, Life, Change, Philosophy

"They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Fate, Life, Choice, Destiny

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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

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"Better be alone than in bad company."

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"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

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"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."

"Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days."

"Destiny is what you make it, otherwise you are at the mercy of fate."

"Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces."

"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."

"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."

"Even "meant to be" takes work."

"The gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake."

"They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them."

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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

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"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf."

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."