Quotes on Misfortunes

Take ones adversity _x000D_ Learn from their misfortune _x000D_ Learn from their pain _x000D_ Believe in something _x000D_ Believe in yourself _x000D_ Turn adversity into ambition _x000D_ Now blossom into wealth

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

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?

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.