“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
Charles Caleb Colton
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Charles Dickens
“Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition”
French Proverb
“The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things”
Anne Sophie Swetchine
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle