fortune

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.

There are two types of people in life when it comes to their careers: people who visualize, and people who imitate. The people who visualize paint their own vision of what their mark is in the world, while the people who imitate can only see what the visualizers want them to.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

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.

The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well.

Dear God, I don__ ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don__ ask you to make my life perfect but full of love. With every mistake I make, or with any success I have, I ask to feel your grace along the way, for the rest of my life. In Jesus__ name, amen.

Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you__e trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol.

You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until you assert your rightful inheritance of this blessed gift, it will remain unclaimed and forever beyond your reach.

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else__ loss.

He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.

It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.