When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

God didn't make us to be warriors so that we'd be perfect; he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.

You know how it is. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Its not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

The more you love, the more you suffer

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.