Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. – Author unknown

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

Every flower must grow through dirt. – Proverb

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles