You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.

Jean Church

Similar quotes

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

Bernard Williams

This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.

Gabriel García Márquez

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

;