The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles

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

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. – Maltbie D. Babcock