There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

We are stronger in our broken places.

I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian. The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians. I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord. He said nothing. We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden?

But, then, nothing is easy.

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?