Ryan Holiday Quotes

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

… injustice breeds injustice

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

Life's not fair, I guess.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

the best people have the rottenest luck

What did I do to deserve this?