“He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.”
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“He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.”
Hubbard, Elbert (1922). Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard. V. Wm. H. Wise & Co./The Roycrofters. p. 237.
Often quoted as "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
Also: A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them. (As quoted in Reader's Digest (October 1927) http://archive.org/details/ReadersDigestno.66October1927, p. 343).

[199804141540.IAA05247@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/14/vanilla/index.html of Vanilla Sky (2001)

Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 30
Context: Ulysses, he thought, had not told him all the truth about the Talisman. He had told him that it had disappeared and that the galaxy was without it, but he had not told him that for many years its power and glory had been dimmed by the failure of its custodian to provide linkage between the people and the force. And all that time the corrosion occasioned by that failure had eaten away at the bonds of the galactic cofraternity.