Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. – Jean Paul Richter

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. – Author Unknown

Every flower must grow through dirt. – Proverb

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. – Henry Ward Beecher