The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Life is unfair, but that's no reason to give up on it

Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it

For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.