Quotes About Fortune

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and theres not much deserving about the matter.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.

I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

People have told me, really more times that I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell.

I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell.

It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

pero la desdicha tambien forma parte del destino.

It was merely that a ne'er-do-well such as Harada will bungle things whenever good fortune smiles upon him. People like him become fidgety and sheepish at the sudden appearance of fortune. "Good luck brings bad,

Denn Dummheit und Glück ja mit vorliebe Hand in Hand gingen.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish

Fortune and love favour the brave.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Fortunate ones, mingle your mind with the Dharma and the happiness of buddhahood will manifest within you! (p. 108)

Those were certainly better odds

A sudden change in plans will lead to good fortune.

It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Destiny is the inner meaning of chance.

The next move was my first independent act and, as it turned out - with a run of luck - the first sensible one.