He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
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.
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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.
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
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 after you are freer than you were before.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
