Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
~ Roger Crawford

Why do we tend to love actors' portrayals of misery when we would never wish such suffering upon ourselves?
~ St. Augustine of Hippo

Insomnia is the mind's revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day.
~ Norman Mailer

People are poverty-stricken whenever their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of their community. Then they cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency, and they cannot wholly escape, therefore, the judgment of the larger community that they are indecent.
~ J.K. Galbraith (in "The Affluent Society")

Insomnia is the curse of the non-snoring classes.
~ free after Oscar Wilde

Life begins at the end of the comfort zone.

Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame.
~ Romans 5:3-5

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
~ C.S. Lewis

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Communism is the time countries waste between capitalism and capitalism.
~ Carlos Alberto Montaner

It is sad that the modern world’s expectation of man’s ability to control every event in life has lead to the dismissal of misfortune; so much so that “bad luck” is perceived as personal weakness.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Humility's origin, its base, is nothing.

The measure of our success is not how we behave when we are winning;
it is how we hope when we have lost.

We have two lives: The life we learn with, and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
~ “The Natural”

The principle of prayer is rooted in the fact of need, want, poverty. Our Lord makes poverty the first condition of spiritual blessedness.
~ William Porcher duBose

To be an alien, to be in exile, is the mark of Christian suffering.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Mistakes and errors come in all sizes. It’s what we do with them that counts.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
~ George Meredith