Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale
It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
Better bread with water than cake with trouble. – Russian Proverb
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. – Morris Mandel
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. – Confucius
The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks. – Fred Beck
The spiritual path is not strewn with roses. – Haridas Chaudhuri
Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. – Seneca
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King
Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. – Terri Guillemets
[M]y strength is made perfect in weakness. – Bible, IICorinthians12:9
Problems are the price you pay for progress. – Branch Rickey
The dark and the light are braided and bound. – Marc Ian Barasch
Adversity enhances this tale we call life. – Terri Guillemets
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. – Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, Remembrance of Things Past
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought
