I have experienced so many setbacks and hardships just because I am unwilling to rely on others and unwilling to bow to hardships. People's efforts are to become a superior person.
When heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind, work his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions, so he will be tempted to endure and gain what he cannot. Only those who have gone through hardships have the opportunity to become self-respecting, confident, and respected people.
Extended information:
Vicissitudes of life comes from the Chinese idiom vicissitudes of life. The sea has turned into a field planted with mulberry trees, and the field planted with mulberry trees has turned into a sea
It is a metaphor for the great changes in nature or the ever-changing world, and the impermanence of life; or it can be used to describe the huge and rapid changes in the world - referred to as vicissitudes of life.
The text of "The Legend of Immortals·Wang Yuan" written by Ge Hong of Jin Dynasty: "Magu said to herself: 'Since I took over the service, I have seen three fields of mulberry fields in the East China Sea.'" "Xianba" by Chu Guangxi of Tang Dynasty The poem "My Uncle Returns to the East": "You can't be with others when you go alone, and the vast sea becomes a mulberry field." Liu Ji of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem in "Cherish the Remaining Spring Slowness·Yong Zigui": "There are times when the sea is mulberry fields. If the sea has not dried up, there will be no end to sorrow.
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