Is there a saying or a quote, when something good happen thanks to something bad ? Like you meet someone because you've lost someone else ?
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Blessing in disguise means something apparently bad turned out for good. For instance, a chest x-ray to diagnose pneumonia, in which a tumor was also seen, in time for life-saving surgery. The pneumonia was a blessing in [the] disguise of illness.
Every cloud has a silver lining is originally a paraphrase of a Bible proverb. It has the meaning that something is not altogether bad, it also has some good aspect.
Every catastrophe brings a small gift. This may be a translation from a Greek folk saying. A woman over forty years old was divorcing, and her emotional state suppressed her appetite. She became as slim as she was twenty years earlier. Catastrophe was the divorce, the small gift was her new slim figure.
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One popular idiom is every cloud has a silver lining:
In every bad situation there is an element of good
Another one would be "[when/where/as] one door closes, another opens", attributed to Alexander Graham Bell.
For more options still, see What is the English equivalent to the Chinese/Japanese saying, “塞翁失馬— The life is like Old Sai’s horse”?
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I don't know what's wrong with this answer- these are the two I immediately thought of. +1 – Jim Oct 12 '14 at 06:38