“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 [...]
“Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deap heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.”
“She felt as miserable as all children scorned, who are ready to risk untold hardships on the chance that by suffering a little more, the more still, then still a little more, they will get what they want in the end.”
“What kind of relationship would we have with this world if we ceased to see it as a solution to inner unhappiness.”
“Be self-satisfied and other self satisfied people will love you, rend your neighbour, the other neighbours will laugh. But if you hurt your own soul, all other souls will cry out.”
“no pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.”
“Misery won’t touch you gentle. It always leaves it’s thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”