“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Passion is a disguise for attachment – sometimes as hate and other times as love.”
Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: On the (July 26, 1945) landslide electoral defeat that turned him out of office near the end of WWII, in The Second World War, Volume VI : Triumph and Tragedy (1953), Chapter 40 (The End of My Account), p. 583.
“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it”
Larry Page (1973) American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
Larry Page’s University of Michigan Commencement Address http://googlepress.blogspot.cz/2009/05/larry-pages-university-of-michigan.html, 2009.
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
“Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)”
Paulo Coelho book Brida
Variant: Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
Source: Brida
“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Evidence: Poems