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What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

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

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

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.

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.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

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?

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.

...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.

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

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).

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

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

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 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.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

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

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

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

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.