“We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

—  Alain de Botton, book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
Context: To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

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