fortune

Fortune Favors the Bold.

Do not be like those who honor their gods in prosperity and curse them in adversity. Rather, in pleasure or in pain, give thanks.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil."

     "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

’Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is a good fortune.'

" Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love." ..... silent lotus

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.