“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” — Rumi
“Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.” — Sri Anandamayi Ma
“However you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself, your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through; false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes into your goal with nothing left over.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
