The discipline of suffering, of 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 suffering - know ye not that it is only this discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto? The tension of soul in misfortune which communicates to it its energy, its shuddering in view of rack and ruin, its inventiveness and bravery in undergoing, enduring, interpreting, and exploiting misfortune, and whatever depth, mystery, disguise, spirit, artifice, or greatness has been bestowed upon the soul - has it not been bestowed through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? In man 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 and 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 are united: in man there is not only matter, shred, excess, clay, mire, folly, chaos; but there is also the creator, the sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, the divinity of the spectator, and the seventh day - do ye understand this contrast?

Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche