"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

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-Elizabeth Kubler Ross

This says so well something I’ve sensed for a long time. In my opinion, It is very difficult for people who have never been driven to their knees by life, or fate, or their own fallible humanity to be fully able to embrace others as they are, with all of our good and less good dimensions.