"We learn from adversity, which is a form of spiritual weight lifting...Those who have developed a deeper level of awareness and understanding are able to weather these storms and to learn far more from them as a part of their evolution...we meditate and practice spiritual disciplines...Not to insultate ourselves, but to become fully open, vulnerable, trusting." -Dan Millman

"When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen:  There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly." - Patrick Overton

"The true measure of a man is how he treats a man who can do him absolutely no good." -Ann Landers

"Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and pubicly, and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bare the consequences." - Susan B. Anthony