Affliction is a good man's shining time.

It is during the times of adversity and trial when we get to know ourselves better... whether we are strong or weak... whether we have character or not... whether we stick to our valued principles or we give in...

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.