“Happiness and good fortune may be used to refine our lives, but so may difficulty, grief, and pain. To make any emotion work in your favor commit to this: That each is, most certainly, temporary. By this devotion, you honor your humanity. By this allegiance, you wholly live. Feel the storm at the surface and be the vast calm of the deep..” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com

 [the original hot! quote was posted July 13, 2012 and was titled “the vast calm of the deep”]