You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Patrick Overton

I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. Author unknown

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Kahlil Gibran

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller