Misfortune teaches or reminds.
The philosopher is the one who learns to see beyond the immediate.
Plato
Spirits are worth what they demand. I'm worth what I want.
Paul Valery
Sadness is a wise book that you have in your heart and that tells us hundreds of things - it prevents us from rotting like a mushroom under a tree; little by little...
Juliusz Slowacki
Feeling good
Nina Simone
The bad are always unhappy: they serve to test a small number of righteous people spread across the earth and there is no evil from which good does not result.
Voltaire