The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
-- Seneca
I learn by going where I have to go.
-- Theodore Roethke
A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
-- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
-- Francis Bacon
Adversity is the foundation of virtue
-- Japanese proverb.