“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”

Source: The Subtle Knife

Source: The Alchemist

"The Old Man and the White Horse"
In the Eye of the Storm (1991)
Context: All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don’t know. Whether it be a curse or a blessing, I can’t say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next?

As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude
Context: There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

"Suspended Animation (Part 5)" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011)

Source: Lover Enshrined

Source: Pussy, King of the Pirates