Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Maybe everbody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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