Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. Man's Search For Meaning

Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul. Psychology of the Unconscious

[One of the company... said: ...is not this the direct contrary of what we admitted before—that out of the greater came the less and out of the less the greater, and that opposites are simply generated from opposites; whereas now this seems to be utterly denied.] ...then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself... these essetial opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another. The Trials Of Socrates

No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. Atomic Habits