"There is a silver lining to every cloud."

"There is opportunity in every crisis."

"In crisis is opportunity."

"Every burden is a blessing."
~Robert H. Schuller

"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
~Kitty O'Neill Collins

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
~Napoleon Hill

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us,
as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."
~James Russell Lowell

"The difference between
stumbling blocks and stepping stones
is how you use them."
~Author Unknown

 "A gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor a man perfected without trials."
~Chinese Proverb

"Affliction comes to us,
not to make us sad but sober;
not to make us sorry but wise."
~Henry Ward Beecher

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart
so you can become bitter and give up.
They happen to break you down and build you up
so you can be all that you were intended to be."
~Charles "Tremendous" Jones

"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way,
then man would have been in his primitive state
and no progress made in civilization and mental culture."
~Anandabai Joshee

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life
with dignity and grace,
making the best of circumstances."
~Aristotle

"Too many people miss the silver lining
because they're expecting gold."
~Maurice Setter

"Every cloud has its silver lining
but it is sometimes a little difficult
to get it to the mint."
~Don Marquis

"If we had no winter,
the spring would not be so pleasant;
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome."
~Anne Bradstreet

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbows."
~Jerry Chin

"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
~Lee Salk

"The stars are constantly shining,
but often we do not see them until the dark hours."
~Unknown

"Adversity draws men together
and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,
just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."
~Soren Kierkegaard

"Only when you have eaten a lemon
do you appreciate what sugar is."
~Ukranian Proverb

"Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture."
~Mario Burata

"Some people have such a talent
for making the best of a bad situation
that they go around creating bad situations
so they can make the best of them."
~Jean Kerr

"Every crowd has a silver lining."
~P. T. Barnum

"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled;
through sickness we recognize the value of health;
through evil, the value of good;
through hunger, the value of food;
through exertion, the value of rest."
~Greek Proverb

"One often learns more from ten days of agony
than from ten years of contentment."
~Merle Shain

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