"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
How true this is. We always tend to glorify others' lives when we see them. It is easy to say, "So-and-so is so great. I wish I had their life." But we forget that most often, the people we idolize have endured the most difficult trials to become the great person that they are. Those special people are the ones who have endured the most refining in the furnace of affliction. So don't wish for a great person's life unless you are willing to suffer.
But the key is not the suffering. It is the "[finding] their way out of the depths" that makes beautiful people beautiful. Any chump can suffer. But it takes a special person to pause, smile at those things that would ruin us, and keep going.
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