Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Sometimes the breaking of things is cruel, and sometimes it is necessary, and sometimes it is just an accident." "My mother was a painting in the storm, convinced down to the last fibers of canvas and the last drop of paint on the brush that the rain was an important part of the making of a masterpiece.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

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

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

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.