... the worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst."

If a bird is flying for pleasure it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Adversity is the school of heroism, endurance the majesty of man, and hope the torch of high aspirations.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro aretino, letter to the klng of france, april 24, 1525, tr.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.