Cressidium

“Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness. For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside

“Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”
― Sun-sin Yi

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
― Carrie Fisher