Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor Frankl
I had not always believed that strength could come from brokenness, or that the thread of divine purpose could be seen in tragedy. But I do now.
Max Cleland
Softness triumphs over hardness, gentleness over strength. The flexible is superior over the immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. Lao Tzu
Talents are better nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe