Thank you, for your thoughtful comment; I’m grateful my post resonated with you.

I’m also fond of Nietzsche’s famous aphorism: That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The stronger we are, paradoxically, the more tender and open-hearted.

Here’s another fine quote by Nietzsche (that is lesser-known) on this subject:

Great pain, the long slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... it makes us more profound... ennobles