Subhead
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt, address before the Iowa State Teachers’ Association, November 1910
TRANSLATION:
Anything worth doing usually costs something. If it takes no effort, no patience, no risk, and no discipline, it probably will not shape much of a life.
THINKING POINT:
Roosevelt was not praising suffering for suffering's sake.
He was pushing back against the idea that comfort should be the highest goa…