"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American artist, poet and writer
Also mentioned as a spoken sample in Dream Theater’s song Breaking All Illusions, from their latest album A Dramatic Turn of Events