Maybe wisdom comes with the enduring of it all. Maybe the long...

Maybe wisdom comes with the enduring of it all. Maybe the long and winding path to becoming wise is overgrown and decorated with trees of painful truths, maybe they shadow your feet black and blind your eyes to stumbling. Maybe it is what we can take, absorb, and continue smiling through, that determines the people we will be. Maybe we are all the darkness we have defeated, the pinprick of light we sent out into a galaxy of pitch.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-