"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood
upright again when the storm had passed over"
Aesop
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
Richard Bach
“But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is
pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god your alive and
its spectacular.”
Joseph Campbell
"I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have
been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear
of further pain."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"The world is a dangerous place; not because of people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein
"Even in the winter, even in the midst of the storm,
the sun is still there.
Somewhere, up above the clouds,
it still shines and warms and pulls at the life
buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.
The sun is there! Spring will come!
The clouds cannot stay forever."
-Gloria Gaither
"There can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to achieve or
attract; we contain the potential for everything within us."
Shakti Gawain
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Kahlil Gibran
"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the
unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken
places."
Earnest Hemingway
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in
the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
Hellen Keller
"The world is full of suffering.
It is also full of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller
"You can choose to make a separate peace...at the very
simplest level, you find a place to retreat. You arrange for a refuge where
you can rest and be renewed before returning to the fray. Your corner may be
as simple as a comfortable chair."
Thomas Kinkade
"When we meet tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing
hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to
find our inner strength."
Dalai Lama
"We must embrace pain and burn it
as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa
"Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come:
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home."
John Newton - Amazing Grace
"And then the day comes when the
risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to
blossom."
Anais Nin
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I
lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."...You
must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine
when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from within."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
Sophocles
