Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.

Your pain is the key to your healing.

If the outcome is the best, we thank God. And, if the worst happens, we thank Him more, for He only knows what is right.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.