Befalls Quotes

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. - Chief Seattle

Wherever you are, death will overtake you, though you are in lofty towers, and if a benefit comes to them, they say: This is from Allah; and if a misfortune befalls them, they say: This is from you. Say: All is from Allah, but what is the matter with these people that they do not make approach to understanding what is told (them)? / Whatever benefit comes to you (O man!), it is from Allah, and whatever misfortune befalls you, it is from yourself, and We have sent you (O Prophet!), to mankind as an apostle; and Allah is sufficient as a witness. - Quran

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. - Knut Hamsun

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

These people are barely surviving, but the crisis begins when a real sickness befalls them. The government of Israel has received money from the German government ... but I think the government didn't use enough for the survivors. - Zeev Factor

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. - Alexander Smith

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. - Epictetus

O my son! keep up prayer and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and bear patiently that which befalls you; surely these acts require courage. (Lugman 31.17) - Quran

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. - Irving R Kaufman