“But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ~ C.S. Lewis “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” ~ Bram Stoker “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way…