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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.
Voltaire
Life
Power
Other
Our
Thorns
Through
Misfortunes
Remedy
Longer
Know
Greater
Pass
Quickly
Than
Sown
Dwell
Them
Us
Harm
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
Life
My Life
Has-Been
Misfortunes
Never
Most
Terrible
Been
Happened
Which
Full
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Man
Men
Past
Reflect
Every
Some
Misfortunes
Blessings
Which
Your
Many
Present
Every Man
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus
Education
Own
Others
Complete
Sign
Neither
Oneself
Misfortunes
Nor
Begun
Accuse
Want
Shows
I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
Jens Lekman
Character
You
Happy
People
Better
Hardships
Build
Think
Other
Relationships
Definitely
Carry
Something
More
Better Person
Misfortunes
Towards
Make
Makes
Understand
Very
Person
Much
Even
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
People
Own
Everyone
Must
Would
Would-Be
Take
Misfortunes
Most
Equal
Contented
Were
Heap
Depart
Common
Whence
Laid
Portion
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
Hugh Jackman
Life
You
People
Other
About
Blaming
Point
Through
Misfortunes
Feel
How
Go
Been
Stop
Might
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Thomas Sowell
Life
Way
Those
Struck
Misfortunes
Making
Been
Dependency
Different
Who
Helping
Fundamentally
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
Unhappy
Others
Misfortunes
Comfort
Derive
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Madness
Evil
Before
Nothing
Wretched
Foolish
Misfortunes
Anticipate
Expecting
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
Wisdom
Wise
Better
Own
Others
Misfortunes
Than
Your
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
Harvey Mackay
Day
Morning
You
Opportunities
Before
Every
Tremendous
Potential
Tend
Misfortunes
New
Overlook
Dwell
Brings
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
Great
History
Political
Books
Dancing
Great Leaders
Misfortunes
Arisen
Leaders
Merely
Failures
Tragic
History Books
Lack
Blunders
Mankind
Skill
Fill
Ills
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Best
Our
Find
Something
Misfortunes
Altogether
Always
Friends
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.
Walter Anderson
Life
Attitude
Inevitable
Worst
Responsible
Able
Prevent
Misfortunes
Toward
Although
Am
May
Happening
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving
You
Yourself
Down
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Ability
Blaming
Misfortunes
Put
Fail
Lack
Whenever
Your
Thing
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Good
Calamities
Others
Ourselves
Kinds
Misfortunes
Fortune
Good Fortune
Two
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.
Aristotle
Life
Old
Poverty
Young
Aid
Other
Those
Out
Weakness
Mischief
Misfortunes
Noble
True
Noble Deeds
Prime
True Friends
Comfort
Sure
Friends
Refuge
Deeds
Incite
Keep
Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.
Travis Bradberry
Time
You
People
Hurts
Somebody
First
Other
Else
Peer
Pleasure
Faux
Misfortunes
Feel
Over
Makes
Personal
Gets
Tiring
Might
Gross
Derive
Fun
Professional
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
Happiness
Composed
Misfortunes
Avoided
A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.
Han Fei
Prevail
Will
Men
Power
Neglected
Recklessly
Ruler
Possible
Worthiness
Worthy
Ministers
Pretext
Faces
Misfortunes
He
Rob
Employs
Affairs
His
Use
Two
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thought
Too
Having
Misfortunes
Come
Well
Fellows
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Livy
Men
Recognize
Slower
Misfortunes
Blessings
Than
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael
Our
Faults
Mystery
Misfortunes
Between
Existence
Connection
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Amy Lowell
Those
Bear
Misfortunes
Never
Remembering
Come
Cheer
Which
Us
Let Us
Hardest
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley
Bear
Misfortunes
Never
Came
Which
Hardest
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