What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
Interpretation
Challenges and struggles make us stronger and more refined.
This quote emphasizes that adversity shapes and strengthens individuals, turning them into their best selves through the process of enduring hardship. It draws an analogy between the transformative power of challenges and the artistic process of a sculptor, suggesting that through trials, we can be molded into something extraordinary.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.
I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.
the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.
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