The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales