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Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

A rose only becomes beautiful and blesses others when it opens up and blooms. Its greatest tragedy is to stay in a tight-closed bud, never fulfilling its potential.

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he gives up.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.