The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain?
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
-John Steinbeck
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams