As somebody who's been, had the good fortune to be able to go to a university and spend my professional life in higher education, I think that probably places me in the middle class.

The elephant symbolizes the removal of obstacles to bring good fortune, and I definitely want my mom to have a comfortable life full of good luck.

Many young Burmese men and women join Buddhist monasteries to bring good fortune.

But that streak of good fortune may be about to end.

It's their background good fortune, nothing more nor less, that means they've never been tempted to fall to their knees and implore an angel, or to send someone a letter telepathically, or to gain comfort from reading what could be in store for a Sagittarius with an ex they're pining for this month.

People who don't realise your time is very precious. People who are far too in pain to know how to want the best for you. People who refuse to do the necessary work. Let's remember, the people in the list above comprise some of the most charming, beautiful, vivacious, seductive characters on the planet. But their traits also mean that you will be headed for substantial challenges in any extended involvement with them. It may take years to work out that they use words like love without knowing what they should entail or that they have systematically shredded your confidence in your judgement in order to avoid acknowledging a raft of their own difficulties. Lovers who know how to avoid these types are not cleverer than the rest of us. They have just had the good fortune to be looked after early on by people who were tender and sweet and therefore now know how to associate relationships with fulfilment rather than frustration. Through immense good luck, they simply have no interest in suffering.

DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune,  

The basic idea is that there is good energy out there floating around, good luck, good fortune.

All the guards in the fortress and all of those travelers passing under its portals good fortune

And one thing really pretty much across the board, no matter how grateful you are for your success, how astonished you are that you had such good fortune, there's always something that you want that you didn't get, some award you were passed over for, some project that you undertook after your success that was a failure or rejected or not as well received as other things.