OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances
will always remain victims
unless they develop a greater vision for their lives."
-- Stedman Graham
"Don't be disquieted in time of adversity.
Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor."
-- Chiang Kai-Shek
"The one resolution,
which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution,
is the key-note of my life.
It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate
the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning.
I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul,
but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod,
with flowers."
-- Helen Keller
"The beauty of the soul shines out
when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another,
not because he does not feel them,
but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
-- Aristotle