"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them." ~ Bernard Baruch

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine." ~ Mario Fernandez

"Never, never, never, never give up." ~ Winston Churchill

"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

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." ~ John Quincy Adams

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter." ~ Henry Fielding

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." ~ Danny Devito