Redeemed Alison

“Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.”
― Tony Samara

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.