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  • ... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

    Believe   Clouds   Sky  
    Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

    Men   People   Judging  
  • To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.

  • I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

  • Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

    Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.
  • Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

    Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation
  • As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

    Light   Hair   Doors  
  • The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  • Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

  • Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

  • If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

    Jobs   Fun   Forever  
    "James McAvoy: I've done X Men... now for a few Zs". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 23, 2011.
  • I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

    Character   Men   Action  
    Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library
  • It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often have between each other. It is a good fortune, when you can adore, when you can love, when you can find something so magnificent.

    Kind   Wonderful   Adore  
  • I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

    War   Order   Ruins  
    Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122
  • I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

    Guy   Gals   Fortune  
    Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2010.
  • Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.

    "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Antonin Scalia, time.com. April 16, 2015.
  • 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 (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
  • I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  • A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

    Funny   Men   Trials  
    Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)
  • Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

  • When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

    Source: deadline.com
  • I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that. But even in the worst moments, catch yourself and remember that within the storm of misfortune there is good fortune. Just get in practice with what they call in Taoism the Wu-wei; the non-action and becoming the observer of it. Just notice and stay at peace with it. I must have admit, that I still have those really disrupting moments.

    Thinking   Taoism   Storm  
    Source: www.drwaynedyer.com
  • Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

    Fall   Greatness   Envy  
  • I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune.

    Girl   Kids   Thinking  
  • It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

  • For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

    Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing
  • It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

    Successful   Eggs   Two  
    George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

    Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
  • I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

    Voice   World   Able  
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