I am only 14 and I am going to have to have back surgery and they are going to have to put rods in my back. I am scared but I want my parents to feel better about it. Because they are upset probably worse than me. ! So can you give me anything on HOPE !??

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.~Emily Dickinson

Always do what you are afraid to do.~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.~Anna Freud

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you have yet survived;
But what torments of grief you endured,
From evils that never arrived.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)