If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. – Aesop