"Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of the overcoming it."
- Helen Keller
Hope
"What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows."
- Ralph Marston
Motivation
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"Call unto Me, and I will answer you…"
- Jeremiah 33:3
Faith
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
Resilience
"And [God] shall heal the breast of the believers."
- at-Tawba, 9:14
Faith
"And when I am ill, it is [God] who cures me."
- Ash-Shu’ara, The Poets: 26:80
Faith
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."
- John 14:27
Peace
"It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Strength
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness
"Tough times don’t last, tough people do."
- Anonymous
Strength
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
Mindfulness
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us."
- A.P.J. Absul Kalam
Perseverance
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
- George S. Patton
Motivation
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
- Helen Keller
Strength
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis
Adversity
"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."
- Isaiah 40:29
Strength
"I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much."
- Mother Teresa
Faith
"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
- Henry David Thoreau
Hope
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him and I am helped."
- Psalm 28:7
Faith
"His compassions, they fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness."
- Lamentations 3:22-23
Faith
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
- Orison Swett Marden
Hope
"Weapons do not cut this Spirit, fire does not burn it, water does not make it wet, and the wind does not make it dry."
- Bhagavad Gita 2.23-24
Spirituality
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
- Euripides
Connection to Earth
"You never know how much they care until you are under the weather."
- C. Kohler
Compassion
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
- Oprah Winfrey
Love
"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."
- Dean Koontz
Connection to Earth
"The treatment is really a cooperative of a trinity — the patient, the doctor and the inner doctor."
- Ralph Bircher
Healing
"The best of healers is good cheer."
- Pindus
Healing
"The Spirit is said to be unexplainable, incomprehensible, and immutable. Knowing the Spirit as such, you should not grieve for the physical body."
- Bhagavad Gita 2.25
Spirituality
"One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
- George Santayana
Relationships
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
- Khalil Gibran
Responsibility
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Relationships
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
- Aristotle
Connection to Earth
"I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday."
- Anonymous
Motivation
"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."
- Johann Paul Friedrich
Health
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
Faith
"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
Adversity