The only way to deal with the pain of life is to embrace it.
Our strength comes from our ability to adapt and evolve.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.