“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” —Rumi

“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.” —Charles Dickens

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

“Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow;
it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things
(if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it.
Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope
that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross
until the time comes to enjoy the crown!” John Bunyan

(This photo composition is a com-posit of some pics
I snapped from the TV during the Annual Derby “THUNDER”
Fireworks & AirShow.)