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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Author: Edwin Markham
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
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That was rough…. Thing to do now is try and forget it…. I guess I don’t quite mean that. It’s not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget…. Life’s like that sometimes… Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin’ the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it’s not all like that. A lot of it’s mighty fine, and you can’t afford to waste the good part frettin’ about the bad. That makes it all bad…. Sure, I know – sayin’ it’s one thing and feelin’ it’s another. But I’ll tell you a trick that’s sometimes a big help. When you start lookin’ around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it.
Author: From the movie Old Yeller
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Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.
Author: From the movie The African Queen
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Author: Garrison Keillor
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Author: Harry Crews
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Author: Homer, Iliad
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For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev’n from the birth are Misery and Man!
Author: Homer, Odyssey
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We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on.
Author: J.K. Rowling
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That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
Author: James K. Feibleman
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Author: Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
Author: Jewish Proverb
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God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Author: John Aughey
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When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Author: John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Author: John Steinbeck
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