What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand.
Sherri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)
Jesse Louis Jackson
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
