God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. – Henry Ward Beecher

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. – Ivy Baker Priest

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe