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When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy or misery last forever? There is a saying, "All celebrations must end sometime." Any wish to live forever or die immediately is often a whim of the moment. How do we know that, although we are happy now, we may not be sad the next day, or sad now but may be happy soon? Given that good and ill, fortune and misfortune come in their own way, we should not cling to life or embrace death. Life and death will come of their own. Why be greedy about life and afraid of death?

When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they choose to make space for it. While outer conditions may stimulate the feeling of happiness, it can never come from anywhere other than within us. Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, borrow, or steal. Nor can any form of artificial sensory stimulus generate true happiness; it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take.

While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace – welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic.

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

...you will open your hands and feel the sweat on your palms and perhaps you will remember that you were born without lifelines on your hand, without fortune, life, or love: you were born, you will be born with a smooth palm, but all you have to do is be born; after a few hours, that blank surface will be filled with signs, lines, portents. You will die with your dense lines worn out, but all you have to do is die for all trace of your destiny to disappear from your hands after a few hours. Chaos has no plural.

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

You can't prevent what you can't predict.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject... Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

As Donald Trump`s fortunes continue to slide, he`s increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican`s weapon.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

Bear good fortune modestly.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.