Every problem is a chance for you to become a better version of yourself. Every challenge charts a path for growth and improvement. Every setback carries the potential for powerful motivation. Every disappointment can lift you to a higher level of resolve. Every inconvenience has the power to inspire new resourcefulness. Every frustration gives you a way to strengthen your patience. From each positive experience, you learn a few things. From each negative experience, you learn much more. Of course you would not intentionally seek to be hurt or disappointed. But neither would you want a life where hurt and disappointment never happen. Difficult things can happen, do happen, and amazingly, life finds a way to make them beneficial. Difficult things can happen, and that’s what makes the good things so very good.
— Ralph Marston