The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
There's a new kind of person emerging within our
communities today, a person with qualities and characteristics that can only be
gotten from a unique kind of struggle, a person who has been fire-tested, shown
to be of steel, and emerged from the other side of this struggle scarred a
little, burned a little, but stronger than ever and focused like no one else.
