It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
Interpretation
Suffering and hardship are essential for spiritual growth and understanding.
Orson F. Whitney emphasizes that the challenges and pains we face in life serve a higher purpose; they are integral to our spiritual education and development. Through these experiences, we are refined and made more akin to our higher parents in heaven, suggesting that personal growth often emerges from difficulties.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.
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