Those years of tumultuous trembling were as a diamond in the rough, unpolished and mistaken for a rock.  I carried this pain like a burden in my pocket, unable to dispose of it.  Later, I set the stone upon the shelf of my soul.  I gazed at it in peace and serenity and it began to glow.  Slowly, I began to discover its value.  Little by little, day by day, I began to polish it.  Robin Hart

We are made from stronger stuff than any of us knows.  The number one thing is not even just to keep going but to trust that there’s something more.  Always.  O, The Oprah Magazine

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.  Chinese Proverb

If we focus on what’s ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives.  Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention

On the other side of this difficulty is a new level of my destiny.  Joel Osteen