Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. - Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. - Seneca

My strength is made perfect in weakness. - II Corinthians

Problems are the price you pay for progress. - Branch Rickey

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. - Leslie Grossman