I thought this quote had both teeth and power. So often when unfortunate things happen folks say the latter phrase which is hardly helpful.

Karin

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

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