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