Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. - Charles Dickens

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.