But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.