Amy

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
― Voltaire

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud