We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges,

You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward,

The blessings that come out of pain will forever be greater than the pain is even as you have passed through it.

Joy exists. Hardships pass. Look for humor, learn to laugh. Life is what you focus on.

Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a society that viewed her as a bright, charming, enormously talented disciple of bourgeois conformity. On the other hand, she ached to experience life in all its grim and beautiful complexity. The poetic eye was always at work examining the nuance and measuring obscure detail, turning conversation into ultimatum (Steiner)

the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage and hope.