Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden


If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit