Life's Challenges

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~ Seneca

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
~ Carl Sandburg

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot