“I don’t think it’s about finding happiness, but rather, finding redemption — finding the ability to redeem yourself, to give yourself
back to yourself. And that’s not something you find once and then you’re done; you don’t reach some magical point one day where the whole puzzle falls into place. Every day is the process of [...]
“It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how, in what way, because of what concatenation of events or circumstances, and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well, that is beyond [...]
“Joy makes a light linkage; but misery is the most unbreakable of shackles.”
“I like not to be where I am expected to be - for it allows me to be where I please and to be left in peace there.”
“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
“To enjoy a thing is to make it your own.”
“This, she knew, was tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge ones own greatness, knowing that it is understood.”