Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness.

The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Ovid

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.