Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires — disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. – Bernie S. Siegel

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us. – Henry Ward Beecher

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. – The Houghton Line, November 1965