Quotes & Sayings About Blessings In Disguise

We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences how satisfied we are with our current lives. Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an otherwise good thing ("I was never the same again after my wife left me"), while generative adults see them as blessings in disguise ("The divorce was the most painful thing that ever happened to me, but I'm so much happier with my new wife"). — Susan Cain

Sometimes small setbacks are just blessings in disguise. They enhance your determination and whole-hearted dedication to achieving your goals. — Robert Cheeke

We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings. — Ana Claudia Antunes

At the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University, McAdams studies the stories that people tell about themselves. We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences how satisfied we are with our current lives. Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an otherwise good thing ("I was never the same again after my wife left me"), while generative adults see them as blessings in disguise ("The divorce was the most painful thing that ever happened to me, but I'm so much happier with my new wife"). Those who live the most fully realized lives - giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves - tend to find meaning in their obstacles. In a sense, McAdams has breathed new life into one of the great insights of Western mythology: that where we stumble is where our treasure lies. — Susan Cain

Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use them to bring you your breakthrough. — Jeanette Coron

Many of our problems are blessings in disguise. — O. Leslie Stone

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found. — Arthur Yorinks

AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up! — Tanya Masse

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing. — Diane Lane

How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell — Mercy Cortez

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. [ ... ]
That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD. — Brother Lawrence

Sometimes it also helps you realize that what you believe are problems are actually blessings in disguise. — Rich Amooi

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos) — Kyriacos C. Markides

Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life. — Pamela Cummins

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise. — Laurie Nadel

Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world just because he himself changed, and followed his own destiny. He changed the world through his giving others opportunities to rise to their own greatness. — Laura Weakley

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. — Oscar Wilde

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last. — Matthew Henry

Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse. — Seth Adam Smith

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise. — Rebecca West

Blessings can be in disguise, so pay attention! — Really Rashida

God is faithful.
God is merciful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde

If she'd learned nothing else, it was that sometimes things don't always work out the way anyone planned. Roundabouts and detours in life were often blessings in disguise. — Leah Atwood

It is from within, among yourselves
from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power
that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping. — Andrew Jackson

Step out in faith to claim a blessed life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, the hard knocks of life are blessings in disguise. — James Houston Turner

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The Lord is with you. Fear not! He will meet your every need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise. — Oscar Wilde