Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?