“Consider a person truly fortunate when he can ride the highs and lows of life, good times and bad times, and still maintain love for life.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from Vicissitudes of Life, chapter 1
In other words
Fortune moves on its own schedule and takes no instruction from you. What it cannot reach is the attitude you meet it with, and that is the whole of your leverage. Innocent’s test of a fortunate life is not the size of the highs or the shortness of the lows, but whether a person still likes being alive at the end of both. By that measure a run of good luck proves nothing, and a bad stretch disqualifies nobody.
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