No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: fate doom destiny calamity
Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
Tom RobbinsTags: dreams fulfillment desire calamity
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
T.F. HodgeTags: blessings wicked manipulation control chaos confusion quotes karma good-intentions calamity sorcery wizardry
At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.
William BeckfordThere were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.
Maybe she just doesn't like children.
Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
Tags: women children singles calamity childlessness
This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}
Tags: history jefferson thomas-jefferson despotism calamity french-revolution napoleon napoleon-bonaparte jesuits
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah(God) is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah (God).
ابن تيميةTags: calamity
Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
Yasmin MogahedTags: life inspiration humility calamity
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