"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."