Quotations

We do not return from the journey into pain and illness to the same house that we left. We have become more and the house we will live in will be more as well, for however long we may inhabit it. -- Rachel Naomi Remen

When all else is lost, the future remains.-- Sandy Blythe

Life is living through the problems, and dealing with them, but not paying so much attention to them that everything else is drowned out.-- Trish Lynch

You are a person with a condition, not a condition in a person's skin. While it's hard to remember that sometimes because of what we go through - personally, as well as with those who don’t understand - the only way to beat pain emotionally (even if you cant physically) is to accept that it's not YOU, it's just there. It’s a part of your life, not your being.

Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.-- Japanese Proverb

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time. -- Asha Tyson
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. --waitley

“after a while you learn to build all your dreams on today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain for dreams and futures have a way of falling down”

'We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.' ~Author Unknown

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~André Gide, L'immoraliste

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust

Without adversity we cannot grow and appreciate life, for it is the tough times that molds and creates a person. How can one see past the superficial to what is truly important, how does one grow? There is no constant in this world, only change. We develop through change. We learn through change. Do not fear adversity, embrace it Life is unpredictable. Tomorrow is unknown. What changes await us? Embrace change and learn to be a better person for it. Embrace change in order to teach others who are going through rough times. Embrace change as growth. Adversity is change. Life doesn't have to end because of adversity.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K