That's what my parents said when I asked them what my origin story was.
“Many beauties are born by accident and then deliberately preserved…” Well, it’s a painter who said that.
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe