Pain allows you to appreciate pleasure.

Seeds can't rise without dirt.

It is the desert that tests a seed's strength.

Tasting the bitter allows you to appreciate the sweet.

If dirt was truly worthless, nothing of value would flourish in it.

Turbulence stretches a tree.

If dirt was truly worthless, nothing valuable would flourish in it.

It is in deep waters that the greatest fish learn how to swim.

It is better to look forward to summer than to curse winter.