“ Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun. Dr. Ruth Westheimer
“ Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. Bernie Siegel
“ When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better. Jane Fonda
“ Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole. Muriel Rukeyser
“ If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer. Saint John Chrysostom
“ Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error whic… John Keats
“ Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become. Bishop Westcott
“ It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs. Madame Guizot
“ He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. Charles Caleb Colton
“ The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an e… William Crawford Gorgas
“ Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this."Nice socks."Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to b… Neal Shusterman
