We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don’t cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again. ~Bo Sánchez

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.  

~Pandora Poikilos

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. ~Criss Jami

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. ~Catherynne M. Valente

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves
not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven. ~Christopher Love

Scientists believe that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Birds have hollow bones which help them fly. Some bird species are intelligent enough to create and use tools. The chicken is the most common species of bird found in the world. Source: Sciencekids