Sooner or later, we all experience hard times in one form or another. Some find inspiration in reading the quotations and proverbs others have developed to help them through the tough times.  

Here are a few that some CBAC mothers have found inspirational.

• Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ~Helen Keller
• Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.  ~Henry David Thoreau
• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.  ~Winston Churchill
• I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.  ~Jewish Proverb
• If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit 
  
• When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.  They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.  ~Barbara Bloom 
  
• Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.  ~African Proverb
  
• Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose ─ the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. ~Robert Brault 
  
• That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.  ~James K. Feibleman
  
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.  ~John Vance Cheney
  
• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.  ~Edwin Markham
  
• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.  ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
  
• To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.  ~Oscar Wilde
  
• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.  ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950
  
• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.  ~Robert Brault
• My strength is made perfect in weakness.  ~II Corinthians
  
• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.  ~William Stafford
  
• There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.  ~Author Unknown
• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.  ~Author unknown
• Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown
• She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.  ~George Eliot 
• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa
• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author unknown