Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘I will not try to hide or walk around it. I will walk through the center of my sorrow and I will emerge – proud and strong.’

‘To berate myself or my loved one over what is unfixable only deepens the wounds. In love and trust I can acknowledge who we were and are to each other, and then move on.’

‘Shared stories are a gift to the teller and to the one who hears.’

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

-William James

‘Could this recurring image of my search for you support a faith that I may one day find you?’

“When you find yourself overpowered by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody.”

-John Keble

‘I’ll be on the lookout for something I can do for others when melancholy closes in around me.’

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

– Algernon Charles Swinburn

‘Somewhere in the midst of my grief is the confidence that spring will come.’

Can I see another’s woe,

And not be in sorrow, too?

Can I see another’s grief,

And not seek for kind relief?

– William Blake

‘I am a member of the human family and all in need are my brothers and sisters.’

“He did not say: You will not be troubled, you will not be belaboured, you will not be disquieted; but he said: You will not be overcome.”

-Julian of Norwich

‘I am strong. I am saddened, sometimes tired, discouraged. But I’ve made it so far. I will not be overcome.’

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.”

-Voltaire