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Category Archives: FORTUNE
Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden. Dan.
Call me not fool till Heaven has sent me fort- une. Shaks.
The peg swallowed the necklace. (Arabic).
King Vikram in time of misfortune hung his necklace on a peg. As misfortunes follow one another, the necklace soon disappeared. No one being able to tell how it was lost, the saying went abroad that the peg had swallowed it. When good fortune returned, the King found his necklace on the peg where it had been hung.
“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
When fortune smiles on thee take advantage. (English)
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole” ― C.G. Jung
Our worst misfortunes are those that never befall us.
” Never give way to melancholy : nothing encroaches more. I fight vigorously.
One great remedy is to .take short views of life.
Are you happy now ?
Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next month? or next year?
Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all, or you may never live to see ? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.” Sydney Smith.
“Life-ahead is timeless fortune.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
A Gypsy (Fortune Teller) By Meena Mustafa – Poem by Meena Mustafa
A room I entered of fortune and dreams
A mystic world, now it seems
Hoping to find answers, I followed my heart
A gypsy woman to read my stars
She lay before me some scattered bones
And talked about ruins and magic stones
Then she gazed into the crystal ball
Getting some answers to her call
A vision of a dream, started to form
Shaping into reality as she performed
‘Teller of fortune, holder of hearts’
‘Tell me what lies beneath the cards’
She got some answers as mystery unfolds
Fear not for I see your heart is of gold
Good days are ahead so just behold!
You will find answers that I was told
The sky is your fortune; you’ll find your way
Forget your sorrows and dream each day
Smell the flowers that bloom in the fields
So many broken hearts have healed
So fear no more and open up your heart
To a new beginning all from the start.
Meena Mustafa
Weather, wind, women, and fortune, change like the moon.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.Thomas Merton
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
The Fortune-Teller
My brother went to see a fortune teller
who said he would die at the age of twenty-one.
That sharp thorn of thought stuck in my mind.
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One day he was riding
a freeway on his motorbike
and the road rearranged his brain.
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They patched him up at the hospital
and he walked out with no scars
visible to passers-by.
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When he turned twenty-two
I laughed out loud with relief
and hid that thorn in my tin of memorabilia.
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One day I took the thorn out of my tin
and showed my mother, laughing as I reminded her of the story
with a frown she said
but he did die, didn’t he.
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