A Quote by Leon Battista Alberti
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
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Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give their own characters
The name of Fortune.
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.
Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.
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