People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.