Sophie Swetchine Quotes

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say. Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.' She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.