Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
in the traditional family structure of Persia. . . one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth. " It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone. . . You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things. . . Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.