Top 56 Befalls Quotes
#1. Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
Thomas Wolfe
#2. All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.
Oren Lyons
#3. In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met ...
Arthur Schopenhauer
#4. Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers
Leigh Hunt
#5. I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.
Masashi Kishimoto
#7. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
#8. No matter the challenges that befalls you in life, never ever forget who you are".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#9. Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?"
"They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
Karen Traviss
#10. Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.
Oren Lyons
#11. Happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin called life. Whatever befalls you, walk on unattached.
Sanchita Pandey
#12. Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
Eric Stoltz
#13. Yet no suffering befalls whoever relinquishes justice and truth, whereas the party system has painful penalties to chastise insubordination. These
Simone Weil
#15. We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
Chief Seattle
#16. Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened.
Philip Roth
#17. Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Marcus Aurelius
#18. No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.
Irving Kaufman
#19. Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.
Salman Rushdie
#20. There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.
Charlotte Bronte
#21. Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
#22. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
Chief Seattle
#23. On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
#24. Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
Libba Bray
#25. It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
Samuel Richardson
#27. To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.
Frederick Lenz
#29. When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Knut Hamsun
#30. If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.
Euripides
#31. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Zane Grey
#32. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.
Jonathan Haidt
#33. I believed in clemency, once," Captain Noble said, at last, "A long time ago, before I learned that the world is a hard place, and those who cannot bear what befalls them, no matter how ill, will be crushed in favor of those who will. There is no clemency, Ellis, only survival.
G.L. Tysk
#34. The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
James Freeman Clarke
#35. No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
Elbert Hubbard
#36. A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#37. Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.
Thomas Boston
#39. See well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Diane De Poitiers
#40. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard
#41. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.
Alexandra Burt
#42. If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.
If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.
Emily Dickinson
#43. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.
Tomichan Matheikal
#44. But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#45. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.
Gautama Buddha
#46. One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#47. Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
Chief Seattle
#49. Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
Aeschylus
#51. Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
Dean Koontz
#52. Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
Gautama Buddha
#53. Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.
Nenia Campbell
#54. But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#55. The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Alexander Smith
#56. The worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.
Walter Scott
