You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.