Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

you leave the cage, the transition into the jungle will definitely be challenging. You take a few steps forward and a few back. You stumble and fall and get back on your feet. Such is the way we learn to lean forward and keep stumbling toward success.

The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.

But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.