It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.
True knowledge comes only through suffering.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever afte...
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.
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