victories

From a fallen tree make kindling.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

There is no victory without pain.