Scars

02 Jun 2025

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the movie

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.

Nietzsche

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Kevin Kelly

When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.

Mencius, Chinese Confucian philosopher, 300 BC (Mn. 6B.15)

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran