That which is painful sharpens one's love.
If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.
Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.