The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
- Sir Walter Scott
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
- Herbert George Wells
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Truman
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made
- Sophocles
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
- Bion
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- Sophocles
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Bible
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
- William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
- William Shakespeare