Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. - Henri Nouwen

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. - Heywood Broun

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Kahlil Gibran

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. - Judy Collin

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. - Albert Einstein

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. - Anatole France

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy

For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. - William Penn