You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

Source: As quoted in The Reader’s Digest, Vol. 128 (1986), p. 137; later in Quotable Quotes (1997) by Editors of Reader’s Digest Complete Sentence: Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Source: J. K. Rowling: Harvard University Commencement Address (5 June 2008)