Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to a Sky Lark"

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. - Author Unknown

How can something bother you if you won't let it? - The Quote Garden

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick

You never know what you've got until it's gone. - Author Unknown