Challenges and Rewards Quotes

Life needs to be like a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs. Otherwise, it's not exciting.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Life is not going from bad to good, but it's a balance of the two that kind of goes up and down. There are bad things and there are good things.

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

Life is sometimes you're happy, sometimes you're sad, sometimes you're in love, sometimes you fight, and that's a life.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.