Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Hope is only the love of life.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

…happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

—G. K. Chesterton

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

—Edgar Allan Poe

But penance need not be paid in suffering… It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

—Barbara Hall