We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
(n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.
If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. ("Sisyphus' hardship on the hill")
Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.
I’ve felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I’ve had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn’t be bothered about things that didn’t matter, things I could par...
Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling,...
Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prude...
What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.
In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.
Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.
You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...
Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.
It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.
Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.