"You either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple.  You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.  The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you."

-Josh Shipp

"Life - it is like a voyage to some known point . . . I stand at the rudder, I have chosen my path . . . but God rules the storm and the sea.  He may direct it otherwise; and then, happen what may, it will be the best for me."

-Hans Christian Andersen
The True Story of my Life