Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. The Prophet
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 1984
“Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. Book III
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