{"quotes":[{"text":"I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. I’m in the worst sort of club. The one no one else wants to be in.","author":"Tracy Guzeman","tags":["fate","god","misfortune"],"id":5459,"author_id":"Tracy+Guzeman"},{"text":"From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.","author":"Wesley Stace","tags":["book","love-for-books","misfortune","about-books","wesley-stace"],"id":14860,"author_id":"Wesley+Stace"},{"text":"But then again...Perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.","author":"Ondrelique C. Ouellette","tags":["humanity","misfortune","poverty"],"id":16520,"author_id":"Ondrelique+C.+Ouellette"},{"text":"Let us be of good cheer  however  remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.","author":"James Russell Lowell","tags":["misfortune"],"id":19848,"author_id":"James+Russell+Lowell"},{"text":"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.","author":"Solon","tags":["adversity","misfortune"],"id":21887,"author_id":"Solon"},{"text":"There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...","author":"Thomas Story Kirkbride","tags":["insane","insanity","kirkbride","kirkbride-plan","misfortune","thomas-kirkbride","thomas-s-kirkbride","thomas-story-kirkbride"],"id":25350,"author_id":"Thomas+Story+Kirkbride"},{"text":"Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["misfortune","sadness"],"id":36639,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["anticipation","misery","misfortune","worry","worrying"],"id":40487,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"},{"text":"Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraidto rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,without guilt.She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gapsbetween hope and despair.","author":"G.G. Renee Hill","tags":["ambiguity","defeat","dread","gratitude","guilt","hope","joy","miracles","misfortune","resilience","self-prophecy"],"id":48635,"author_id":"G.G.+Renee+Hill"},{"text":"A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["attitude","misfortune"],"id":54490,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}