Allie Pichardo

“Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its longsuspended life.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables