Quotes About Wheel of Fortune
According to Wikipedia, Wheel of Fortune (X) is one of 78 cards in a tarot deck and is the tenth trump or Major Arcana card in most Tarot decks. It is used in playing the game of cards as well as in divination. A common aspect to most interpretations of this card within a reading is to introduce an element of change in the person’s life, such change being in station, position or fortune: such as the rich becoming poor, or the poor becoming rich.
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” Hermann Hesse
“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.” Jhumpa Lahiri
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” Mahatma Ghandi
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.” Mario Puzo
“I don’t know how much we will rise,” I say stoutly. “And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. “You are ambitious to rise?” “We are all on fortune’s wheel,” I say. “Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.” Philippa Gregory
“In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.” Jeffrey Eugenides
“I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act.” Ursula K. Le Guin
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How swiftly fate can make or unmake kings.” Nathaniel Lee
“Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.” Nadia Scrieva
“Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.” Ljupka Cvetanova
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.” Confucius
“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !” Alexandre Dumas
“The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.” Josephine Pollard
“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.” Boethius
“His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.” Gautama Buddha
“Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.” Shannon L. Alder
“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.” Philippa Gregory
“So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.” Boethius
“Life’s a wheel of fortune and y’all can’t buy a vowel.” Lil’ Kim
“You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man” Jeannette Walls
“Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.” Benvenuto Cellini
“Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.” E.A. Bucchianeri
“I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.” Kumail Nanjiani
“What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol.” Amy Leigh Mercree
“I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I’ve fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I’d like it to sell millions of copies, but my self – worth is not based on chart positions.” Roland Gift
“I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed. ” Leo Tolstoy
“I watch ‘Jeopardy!’ every night and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ follows. And every time I’m like, ‘Whoa, it’s still on! This is still happening!” Martha Maclsaac
“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.” Criss Jami
“Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.” Vera Nazarian
“Normality wasn’t in the days I’d left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.” Maria Duenas
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.” Miguel De Cervantes
“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day’s receipts.” Sheri S. Tepper
“People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.” Chris Prentiss
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” Helen Keller
“Fortune’s fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.” Roman Payne
“Show pity I beg you… We have today been struck down by fortune, But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.”
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” William Shakespeare
“Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy” Agona Apell
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.” Hermann Bahr
“What I’m saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune’s a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.” Sakura Tsukuba
“… good luck is more dangerous than bad luck. Bad luck teaches valuable lessons about patience, timing, and the need to be prepared for the worst; good luck deludes you into the opposite lesson, making you think your brilliance will carry you through. Your fortune will inevitably turn, and when it does you will be completely unprepared.” Robert Greene
“The truly fortunate person has created his own good fortune through good habits of the soul, good intentions, and good actions.” Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t mention your fortune in front of an unfortunate.” Amit Kalantri
“Fortune was an invisible, unconquerable creature that ruled commonfolk and noble alike.” F.C. Yee
“What marvelous fortune to have lived to see a world that would one day make you.” Thomm Quackenbush
“A fortune can’t be made from a single coin in the same way a forest can be grown from a single seed.” VKBoy
“Birth into fortune is no achievement. Achievement comes when those with silver spoons remember that they owe life a debt payable by sharing with those without spoon.” Vincent Okay Nwachukwu