Nachi

“What you had to do was quite simple, and quite clear before you, but hate blinded you, and you could see nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger, or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses, or the opportunity to be adequately clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.”
― Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom

“Plura sunt quae nos terrent, quam quae premunt; et saepius opinione quam re laboramus. * There are more things to alarm than to afflict us, and we suffer much oftener from the apprehension than from the reality. We are apt to be more frightened than hurt.”
― Claude Pavur, Latin Lights 1: Cicero & Seneca: Thoughts for School and for Life

“Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace