#luck

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy. ↗

— Eddie Slovik

#because #had #happy #i #knew

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#luck #secret #age

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#life #luck #youth #age

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#luck #skill #art

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artists #create #enormous #enough #fears

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#destiny #island #landscape #luck #south-carolina