Willst du immer weiterschweifen?
Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.
Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,
denn das Glück ist immer da.
Variant translation:
Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See! The Good lies so near.
Only learn to seize good fortune,
For good fortune's always here.
Erinnerung
Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer da.
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.”
On Alexander Lukashenko, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus at belarus.by (1 December 2009) the official website of the Republic of Belarus http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/results-of-the-official-visit-of-silvio-berlusconi-to-belarus_i_0000000549.html
2009
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you, as the election results we can see testify.”
Silvio Berlusconi in Minsk, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/results-of-the-official-visit-of-silvio-berlusconi-to-belarus_i_0000000549.html, 1 Dec. 2009, from belarus.by.
“Can I still wish you good luck?”
“You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.
Chapter 38 (p. 654)
Redemption Ark (2002)
“Do you know about storks? Storks on your roof bring all kinds of good luck.”
The Wheel on the School (1954)
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 8 “The Five-Year Game: Infinite Variation” section 8 (p. 468)
“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”
Speaking to his son Gregory, as quoted in Papa, a Personal Memoir (1976) Gregory H. Hemingway
