Fav Quote Friday | Body and Spirit: Do Difficulties Really Make Us Stonger?

"Adversity

is like a strong wind.
It tears away from us all

but the things that cannot be torn,

so that we see ourselves

as we really are."

~Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

image: 'sadness' byMetin Demiralay via deviantart

"We must embrace pain

and burn it as fuel for our journey."

~Kenji Miyazawa

“What does not kill me 

makes me stronger.” 

(“Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.”)

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you believe in this concept? I am not sure
if it is true for every situation, as many challenges

can bring you down completely

or damage you permanently.

But I think it is the spirit within us,
the one that tells us to rise up afterwards,
that most often overtakes us, and gets us through the storms of life.

Once this has happened, we often are left feeling

more empowered, more compassionate, 

with a greater sense of who we are
and what we are truly capable of.