The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore....

When you’re working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as...

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or...

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they...

[One of the optimists is eco-designer Bill McDonough , whom we bumped into in Beijing, at the Fortune Global Forum this May. As chair of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development, he believes China will...

Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.

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

Today is an ephemeral ghost…A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.”In mundane terms, it marks a “leap” in time, when the...

A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.

Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is the heart of life. Flowers have fear of being withered while Thorns have...

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit...

Vielleicht wird unser Vorurteil auch dadurch bestärkt, daß es – von außen gesehen – oft vom Leben Begünstigte zu sein scheinen, […] denen wir daher sozusagen das Recht nicht zusprechen wollen, daß sie erkrankten; kennt...

Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

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.

Fortune Interactive was conceived with two core goals in mind; increase our clients’ revenue while maintaining the highest levels of communication. The search marketing industry is suffering from growing-pains with relatively few companies able to...

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

when morning arrives, a day comes. Each day opens it doors of fortune and misfortune to all. There is non who is neither fortunate nor unfortunate in a day. The onus lies on pilgrims of...

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

I am evenThe natural fool of fortune.

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...

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

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.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

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...

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

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...

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...

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a...

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a...

You always invest the money you earn. That’s the only way you can really speed up your fortune.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your...

When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty....

Fortune favors the brave. They taste crunchier.

‘Fortune favors the brave.’ Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, ‘And the brave...

Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of ‘ancient’ famous...

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.