You experience darkness so you’re able to appreciate the value of light. You feel fear and it prompts you to call forth courage. 你经历了黑暗，所以你能够欣赏光的价值。你感到恐惧，它会促使你鼓起勇气。

Hardship is a burden but not your enemy. Your enemy is indifference, and the challenges, the pains, the struggles render indifference impossible. 困难是负担，但不是敌人。你的敌人是冷漠，而挑战、痛苦和挣扎使冷漠变得不可能。

Beauty and possibility call to you, but all too often you fail to hear. Yet life’s difficulties cannot be ignored, and they are what can force you to care. 美丽和可能性在召唤你，但你常常听不见。然而，生活中的困难不能被忽视，他们是什么可以迫使你关心。

They sharpen your skills, increase your wisdom, focus your efforts. And thus engaged, you do notice positive possibilities, you do advance beauty, meaning, and fulfillment. 他们磨练你的技能，增加你的智慧，集中你的努力。如此投入，你确实注意到了积极的可能性，你确实推进了美丽，意义和成就。

It is by experiencing the difficulty of your efforts that you understand their power. In the pain is not just the gain, but also the awareness that gain is possible. 正是通过体验你努力的困难，你才能理解它们的力量。在痛苦中不仅仅是收获，而且是意识到收获是可能的。

In every twist and turn of fate, you can find potential value. Always be eager to do the work that brings that potential to life. 在每一次命运的曲折中，你都能找到潜在的价值。永远渴望做能把这种潜力带到生活中的工作。

— Ralph Marston - 拉尔夫·马斯顿