What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
Interpretation
Challenges and struggles make us stronger and more refined.
This quote emphasizes that adversity shapes and strengthens individuals, turning them into their best selves through the process of enduring hardship. It draws an analogy between the transformative power of challenges and the artistic process of a sculptor, suggesting that through trials, we can be molded into something extraordinary.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'
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