Fortunate Quotes - Page 23

• We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

  Jim Lovell

  Distance, Moon, Thumbs Up

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of us in our daily lives—what kind of [buildings] we live in, what kind of clothes we wear, what we see with our eyes. We are often blind to the beautiful things around us. What I'm mostly concerned about is how often we're blind to our own talent. I think that within each human being there is a creative spirit, and some of us have been fortunate enough to have good teachers and parents who've brought this out and encouraged it, but others haven't.

  Joan Mondale

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

  Mark Doty

  World, Hours, Made

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• If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

  Gough Whitlam

  Book, Australia, Long

  "Abiding Interests". Book by Gough Whitlam (Foreword), 1997.

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• It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, World, Helping

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• Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

  Haile Selassie

  Country, War, Men

  Address to Ethiopian Parliament, 18 July 1935

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• Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Mean, Home

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• We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

  James R. Thompson

  Numbers, Illinois, Tourism

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• I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Teacher, Couple, Teaching

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• At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.

  Carolyn Hart

  Pain, Children, Real

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• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spiritual, Unique, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Writing, Ability

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• Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Genius, World, Newton

  "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.

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• The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

  Jack Dorsey

  Entrepreneur, Luck, Situation

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• I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

  James Denton

  Divorce, Long, Track

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

  David Milne

  Moving On, Skills, Scotland

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• We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, Men, Different

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• Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

  August Strindberg

  Real, Filled Up, Sorrow

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (…). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

  Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

  Air, Outlook On Life, Risk

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• I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

  Victoria Pratt

  Series

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• Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Spiritual, Compassion, Years

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• We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.

  Cindy Klassen

  Sports, Country, Want

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• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Engineering, Pilots, Tests

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• Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Teacher, Musical Life, People

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• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Mean, Differences, Parent

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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