Since I was about 8 years old, my mom had a wrinkled, tea stained piece of paper on our refrigerator that I memorized after years of staring at it as I drank from the milk carton when she wasn't looking. It said this...and I will always remember it:
There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow. But it takes both rain and sunshine to make one. If life is to be rounded and many colored like a rainbow, both joy and sorrow must come to it. Those who have never known anything but prosperity and pleasure become hard and shallow. But those whose prosperity has been mixed with adversity become kind and gracious.
-Anonymous
That should make us feel pretty good about all the bad things in life.
