#calamities

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? ↗

— Virgil

#earth #full #our #region

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ↗

— Horace

#general #genius #his #host #like

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

Crises are challenges, not calamities. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#challenges #crises

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#age #calamities #ice #ice age #want

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ↗

— Beilby Porteus

#over #suffers #them #twice #who

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#better #calamities #character #elasticity #escapes

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#miss-marchmont #selfish #suffering #villette #nature

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness