We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
That’s how stories happen – with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Haruki Murakami
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
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P.g. Wodehouse
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises...
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Christine De Pizan
More Quotes By Marjane Satrapi
I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true...
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
