Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
Your hills, O Earth, your snow-clad mountain peaks, your forests, may they show us kindliness… Impart to us vitalising forces that come, O Earth from deep within your body, your central point, your navel, purify us wholly.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.