It is in suffering that the real battle of success is won or lost. ––the Wealthy Gardener
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey,” Brennan Manning reminds us.
Life can be hard––it will be extremely hard at times––and these hardships can either destroy our hopes or grow our character.
It all depends on how we respond to suffering. We can drink and gain a temporary reprieve from it. We can watch television, or distract ourselves in a million other ways. We can keep moving like the ants.
Or we can sit in suffering. We can seek the lesson that our internal struggle is trying to teach us. We can confront our troubled souls.
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit,” claimed Napoleon Hill.
We gain these benefits when we spend time in solitude.
We grow through suffering, but only if we sit in it. The lesson of suffering goes unheeded by the masses who keep moving like ants.
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet,” said Helen Keller. “Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
It is in suffering that the real battle of success is won or lost.
