The superior person makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

 —Confucius

I think these difficult times have helped me understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

 —Isak Dinesen

Even our misfortunes are part of our belongings.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

 —Bertrand Russell

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

 —Steven Wright

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

 —H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Studies indicate that the one quality that all successful people have is persistence. They’re willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.

 —Dr Joyce Brothers

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

 —Aesop

You can’t run away from your troubles. There ain’t no place that far.

—Uncle Remus

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

 —Sophocles

Despair is anger with no place to go.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

—André  Gide

Bad is never good until worse happens.

 —Danish proverb

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

 —John Updike