> _People who call themselves realists are often just dreamers who gottheir hearts broken somewhere along the way._
>
> -- [Ashley Stahl/TEDx talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRtBHF-WPpM)
> _Pain is often a trampoline that will launch us into our next stage of life, if we're willing to let it._
>
> -- still Ashley Stahl
@Pat Well, this one is a cheap quip with an expensive reality behind it. Let me respond with a translation of a Dutch song text I happen to know:
> _Want de allermooiste bloemen groeien vlak langs het ravijn, en om die te kunnen plukken moet je durven bang te zijn._
>
> _because the most beautiful flowers grow at the edge of a ravine, to pick them you must dare to be afraid_
>
> -- [Veldhuis & Kamper/Ravijn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZk0Nv1TLDo)
@FailForward
"No pain, no gain."