Matt Metivier

“Listen. Easy now," said the old man gently. "I know, I know. You're afraid of making
mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my
ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt
instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no
one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning