"If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation."
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy."
"Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain."
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
"Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."
"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."
"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
"Every man has his secret sorrows."
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
"Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret."
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."