Angel

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“We suffer because we overlook the fact that, at heart, we are all right.”
― Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious