Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

We learn by misfortune.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

You need sucky things in life to make you stronger.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.