Excerpt: “The pain does lessen; our eyes do stop weeping. Like a watercolor wash, time does soften our suffering. We laugh again. We enjoy our work, our family, our friends. We move on…because we know we must. Otherwise our time here is wasted” (p. 140).

Leder, Steve. (2017). More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us. New York: Hay House, Inc.