Has exile helped you? Have you found strength in it? Oh yes! Without a doubt, I can try to tell you why. When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy – which could happen to any one of us – we can react in two ways. Obviously we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up; discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.   

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama