Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.

Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light.  It is a time to make choices.  And through this process we form our characters—some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous. 

Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you—a stick.

You won’t solve your problems by drowning others in them.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.