“Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and make tough decisions, in order to achieve something extraordinary.”

“Devotion to goal, knowing your purpose and calling helps you go through pain, hindrance and crisis”

“Whatever happens to us, was a useful education.”

“The difficulties of people should be our business.”

“It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc.”

“Our obstacles are tough, so are our potentials. If we don’t unleash our potentials, our obstacles will cripple us!”

“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. I can’t settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”

“You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it.You cannot talk about faith. You have to live it.You cannot talk about the desert. You have to cross it.”

“With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.”

“God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.”

“God is our hope on the day of doom.”

“However desperate your life may seem, there is hope. And no matter how dire your circumstances may appear, you can rise above them.”

“A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: “I lie in the shadow of St. Paul’s.”

“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it’s just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.”