Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
…
"There is no greater misfortune
than underestimating your enemy.
Underestimating your enemy
means thinking that he is evil.
Thus you destroy your three treasures
and become an enemy yourself.
When two great forces oppose each other,
the victory will go
to the one that knows how to yield.
Tags: compassion patience treasure enemy misfortune yield
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: misery fool stone insane misfortune lunatic quixote windmills
People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.
Victor HugoTags: misfortune
It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.
Steve MaraboliTags: life god live misfortune blame breathe
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
ThucydidesTags: expectations misfortune brilliant
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. TepperTags: life fate religion punishment chance curse superstition destiny fortune luck misfortune pettiness divine-intervention
History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.
Peter AdejimiTags: politics past writing history mankind crime misfortune
Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.
Tags: death tragedy curse funeral misfortune coffin couple bad-luck setback twist bad-marriage
But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.
Ivo AndrićTags: bridges misfortune passage-of-time
You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: life disappointment defeat misfortune richelle difficulties upset discouragement setbacks richelle-goodrich
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