At the beginning of my sickness when things started to get really hard my mom left this quote on my bed.  Ever since then I have read it many times and it is quickly becoming my favorite quote.  It is applicable to any trial.  I have bolded the words just as she left them.  The bold words point out what we have to gain from our trials.
 

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.  It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility.  All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God...and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."
 

Thanks for the quote mom!