Life has a way of
testing you to see if you have learned her lessons; a way of pushing you past
your self-perceived limits.
“Each one of you is like an earthen vessel – a beautiful piece
of pottery – prettied up by your fathers and mothers and teachers with tender
loving care. Life will pick you up and smash you onto the ground, break you
open, and see what is inside of you. With many of you, life will find nothing
inside. You are empty without substance. For others, when you break, life will
have to turn away from the smell, because you live in a weak culture that has
allowed you to get by on charm and pretty talk and backslapping, and you have
practiced dishing manure for so long that is almost seeps out of your ever y pore;
and now that is what you are. For others, when your shell smashes open, life
will find a sword made of pure Damascus steel. And you are a warrior” Greitens,
2012
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