Hopefulness in Trouble

Kural-621
Smile, with patient, hopeful heart, in troublous hour;
Meet and so vanquish grief; nothing hath equal power.
Meaning : If troubles come, laugh; there is nothing like that, to press upon and drive away sorrow.
Kural-622
Though sorrow, like a flood, comes rolling on,
When wise men's mind regards it,- it is gone.
Meaning : A flood of troubles will be overcome by the (courageous) thought which the minds of the wise will entertain, even in sorrow.
Kural-623
Who griefs confront with meek, ungrieving heart,
From them griefs, put to grief, depart.
Meaning : They give sorrow to sorrow, who in sorrow do not suffer sorrow.
Kural-624
Like bullock struggle on through each obstructed way;
From such an one will troubles, troubled, roll away.
Meaning : Troubles will vanish (i.e., will be troubled) before the man who (struggles against difficulties) as a buffalo (drawing a cart) through deep mire.
Kural-625
When griefs press on, but fail to crush the patient heart,
Then griefs defeated, put to grief, depart.
Meaning : The troubles of that man will be troubled (and disappear) who, however thickly they may come upon him, does not abandon (his purpose).
Kural-626
Who boasted not of wealth, nor gave it all their heart,
Will not bemoan the loss, when prosperous days depart.
Meaning : Will those men ever cry out in sorrow, "we are destitute" who, (in their prosperity), give not way to (undue desire) to keep their wealth.
Kural-627
Man's frame is sorrow's target', the noble mind reflects,
Nor meets with troubled mind the sorrows it expects.
Meaning : The great will not regard trouble as trouble, knowing that the body is the butt of trouble.
Kural-628
He seeks not joy, to sorrow man is born, he knows;
Such man will walk unharmed by touch of human woes.
Meaning : That man never experiences sorrow, who does not seek for pleasure, and who considers distress to be natural (to man).
Kural-629
Mid joys he yields not heart to joys' control.
Mid sorrows, sorrow cannot touch his soul.
Meaning : He does not suffer sorrow, in sorrow who does not look for pleasure in pleasure.
Kural-630
Who pain as pleasure takes, he shall acquire
The bliss to which his foes in vain aspire.
Meaning : The elevation, which even his enemies will esteem, will be gained by him, who regards pain as pleasure.