Don't miss the silver lining in the quest of Gold

Basically, the statement conveys the message that you should never feel hopeless, because difficult times always lead to better days. Here, difficult times are like dark clouds and silver linings resembles the sun rays, meaning the path is beautiful ahead. In your difficult times, you learn several things, you learn how to survive; the key is not to loose hope and never give up. But once you get some hopes don't go on waiting for something much more to come or else you might also miss the silver lining if you keeping waiting for getting a gold.

Let us take an example, if one boy has never been to dark times and always had success in his life and the other boy has just passed his one dark time, the second one knows the key, how to survive in those conditions and lead to success but the first one will find it difficult. So, what we get from the statement is that everything happens for good, every dark time will teach you certain lessons in life that’ll be helpful for you in your future to achieve your goals and lead to success.

 For some it means something will benefit you, in one way or another, in the midst of something going bad in your life at the time. The following are of course tongue in cheek responses, but I do think illustrate the point. Your parents die, but you inherit the estate or your girlfriend leaves you for the milkman, but he gives her the clap or even better you spend a fortune on a house which is condemned, only to find it sits on a literal gold mine. As goes the popular American saying, “ if life gives you lemons, make lemonade"but as Sherlock Holmes (sort of) once said: “it's a lemon entry, my dear Watson"!

Every difficult or sad situation has a comforting or more hopeful aspect, even though this may not be immediately apparent. John Milton coined the phrase 'silver lining' in his poem Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:

I see ye visibly, and now believe

That he, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill

Are but as slavish officers of vengeance,

Would send a glistering guardian, if need were

To keep my life and honour unassailable.

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

I did not err; there does a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night,

And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

As the proverbial saying goes 'every cloud has a silver lining' is used to convey the notion that, no matter how bad a situation might seem, there is always has some good aspect to it. This expression is usually said as an encouragement to a person who is overcome by some difficulty and is unable to see any positive way forward. Personally, I have also experienced this in my life. It always seems to happen that no matter how good or bad a situation in your life is, it will always come to an end. Change is inevitable, unavoidable, undeniable. Cheers!