To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.

Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

Life is a sage’s university; hardship is his professor.

Wounds are life's trophies for enduring trials.