“Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune”
Swedish Proverb
“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
“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.”
Washington Irving
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Charles Dickens
“Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well”
German Proverb
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others”
Ambrose Bierce
