Ronaldo

“I think I shall get there, I shall rediscover that
sensation of Happiness, now, this moment, while I’m searching... I’m putting everything I’ve got into it... I’d give anything to experience it... I’m going to get it... I’ve got it... no, I haven’t got it... this isn’t it... not Happiness...”
― Nathalie Sarraute, You Don't Love Yourself

“Is a tired and disillusioned heart any closer to You than a young and happy one? Where can we ever hope to find You, if neither our simple joys nor ordinary sorrows succeed in revealing You to us?”
― Karl Rahner, Encounters With Silence

“Dreams, like memories, are shores we row toward to escape the ever same tomorrows and their cruel futility.”
― Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions: Volume I [I. The Book of Questions, II. The Book of Yukel, III. Return to the Book]

“We get used to pain. Others make us get used to it.”
― Edmond Jabès, The Book of Dialogue