“For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.”

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

“Defiance may be the roughest path to beauty but, unfortunately, often it is the only path.”

“She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”

“Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. ”

“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not this hard, unthinking, mechanical drive toward a goal or destinations, so typical of the age itself.”