Good Fortune Quotes - Page 16

• Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Down And, Helping

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

  Rob Paulsen

  Running, People, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

  Denzel Washington

  Lunch, California, Zimbabwe

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Encouragement, Good Luck, Tears

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.14, Meredith Books

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• As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

  Daniel Nathans

  Looks, Way, Lasts

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• Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

  Plato

  Sea, Wish, May

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• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  Scarlett Johansson

  Eye, Different, Spotlight

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

  William Boyd

  Hard Work, Artist, Way

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• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  Andre Dubus

  Dad, Father, Writing

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• Good fortune has side effects.

  Martha Beck

  Luck, Sides, Fortune

  "10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Francis Bacon

  Fate, Men, Fortune

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• 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

  Thinking, Punishment, Deities

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Inspire, Everyday

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Growing Up, Home, Grandparent

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• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Thinking, People

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