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

Tags: kindness old-age aging fortune luck preparation good-fortune

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He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.

Hilary Mantel

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What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

Anthony Liccione

Tags: fate winning chance fortune luck losing lottery possiblities lightning-strike

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

Sheri S. Tepper

Tags: life fate religion punishment chance curse superstition destiny fortune luck misfortune pettiness divine-intervention

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Good fortune is created/written/made.

Erica Goros

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What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which was probably just a made-up concept invented by humans to feel like something or someone was guiding them anyway. God, spirits, cookies, whatever. She was so sick of buying into the idea that there was actually meaning behind any of this. It was just her, blind and alone, making a mess of her life on her own, thank you very much.

Andrea Lochen

Tags: fate fortune year repeat fortune-cookie

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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

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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

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Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Robert Galbraith

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