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.
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
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.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
Misfortune may become fortune through patience.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.