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Letter "M" » misfortunes
«I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| Keywords:
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«It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others»
«Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.»
«I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.»
Author: Walter Anderson
| Keywords:
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«Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
cheer, Good Cheer, misfortunes, remembering
«In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.»
«Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Chance,
Life
| Keywords:
chances, misfortunes, prosperous
«It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
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«Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dangers, misfortunes, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Source
«Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Misfortune,
Poverty,
Solitude
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, illustrious, isolation, misfortunes, obscure
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