Dimitri

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms