There are few situations in life which cannot be remedied, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised adversary over a steep cliff on a dark night.
-- Kai Lung
The capacity for tolerating unpleasure and pain without fleeing disillusioned into a state of rigidity goes hand in hand with the capacity to take happiness and to give love. To use Nietzsche’s words: he who wants to learn to "jubilate to high heaven" must be prepared to be "dejected unto death."
-- Wilhelm Reich
All you need to make life really pleasant, at some moments anyway, is some onions, some mushrooms, some oil, a little garlic, and a short memory.
-- Judy Collins
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