Leigh Bardugo: "There is something to be said for endurance."

The size of greatness inside of you is measured by the challenges you overcome.

Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self-defeating patterns that the pain produced.

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.