Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
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