Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

All right, I told myself. I'll also have to learn to eat. And to love. You can learn anything.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Lodged The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.