If you're soft hearted, then you'll never survive in this world of sin.
-Anonymous
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
-Nicholas Sparks
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault