#fortune

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#anyone #door #fortune #rarely

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock. ↗

— Roman Payne

#fortune #lizards #payne #roman #sun

He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him. ↗

— Derek Landy

#killing #luck #misfortune #murder #turning-tides

A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations. ↗

— C.K. Webb

#fame-and-fortune #legacy #stories-imortality #writing #dreams

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #god #life #live #misfortune

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#misfortune #optimism #tragedy #experience

Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#purity #home

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#life #life

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

Fortune love you. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good-fortune #luck #love