“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com