“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.”

“Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.”

“I know that your heart is broken and I know that no words will repair that. I know how hard that is and I know it will never be the same again. But I also know what kind of person you are and how you deal with life.My friend, love is not how many times the words “I love you” have been said and it is not the long night talks or the going outs. Those add to the value of love but those are not ‘love’. A good friend can offer you those. I know, love isn’t meant to be easy but knowing what to defend and what to stand for is what defines love and what defines a person you can depend on. No one should use or abuse a relationship in any way.Knowing a person will choose you over anything else. Knowing that you can sleep safe because you have someone who will fight the world to choose you. That is Love.So, dear friend, let him leave because you deserve someone who wants to stay and who is willing to fight for it.”

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“Shovels serve two purposes. One is to dig holes and the other is to fill them. And I must say that my life evidences my expertise with the first, but apparently I can’t figure out the second.”

“You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”