Top 31 Misfortune And Happiness Quotes
#1. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De Balzac
#3. Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. Gold
Love is the real currency - the true wealth we all possess. Spend it wisely.
Michael Faudet
#5. Don't let your misfortune push you over the cliff, but let your dreams lead you toward the stars.
Debasish Mridha
#6. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.
Peter Stamm
#7. The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#8. There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven, in which the misfortune of one would stagger them all. It was a garment, this life. Its beauty outside, its warmth within.
James Salter
#9. Well...Anyone can promise wealth, happiness, health, and love. Anyone, even the dumbest fortune-teller. But misfortune is a challenge. No one wants to face it.
Kata Mlek
#10. Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.
Christopher Paolini
#11. To have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain
Milan Kundera
#12. The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
Theodore Roosevelt
#14. One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
#16. Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
Albert Camus
#17. You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it
which is what matters most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
Haruki Murakami
#19. Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#20. I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists ... Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries ... As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.
Comte De Lautreamont
#21. Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
Groucho Marx
#22. Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#25. Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca The Younger
#26. You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.
Donald Trump
#27. Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason
#28. Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
Nguyen Du
#29. Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
Anne Frank
#31. The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve
Agona Apell