"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it." - Denzel Washington

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"Life is a lake in which real people are the lotuses, fake people are the mud, and you are the dragonfly" - Y prap

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"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?" -Sojourner Truth

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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one.

But it will only grow in the mud.

In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering.

..The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life....Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death.If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

Goldie Hawn