Problems are often opportunities coming to us in packaging that isn't what we expect or want. This has happened to me more times than I can count, so when I say I welcome problems ... there's a reason for it.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

When something doesn’t go according to plan, we have a choice to either resist it or incorporate it.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren’t perfect.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

when things don’t go your way — or, rather, what you don’t think of as your way — there can be a variety of opportunities that may not be obvious in the moment but that through hard work, preparation, and persistence can present themselves over time and make you better.