Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.