“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
Source: Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius400
Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180Related quotes
“He waited, but nothing happened.
"Boom? Was something suppose to happen there?"”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Imogen, pg. 303
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Quoted in Really Reading Gertrude Stein : A Selected Anthology with essays (1989) by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press ISBN 0-895-94380-8, p. 253
“Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.”
Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Prose IV, line 18
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
John Stuart Mill book Autobiography
Source: Autobiography (1873)
Source: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/149/mode/1up p. 149
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright
Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]
