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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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Personal Development
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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Personal Development
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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Personal Development
"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away."
Emotion
"I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools."
Society
"Máma was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she'd cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such things had never tasted chili-cheese fries with melted cheddar, fresh ground beef, and Tapatío sauce."
Humor
"Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it."
Empowerment
"Why do women always feel they have to settle for less?"
Feminism
"I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end."
Death
"Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last."
Reflection
"Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart."
Emotion
"You will not mock me-and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground."
Love
"She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines."
Nature
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