Feil Abejaron

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“I want to conquer my own weak spirit and put the gas attack behind me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking. If I ascend to the highest and most difficult on the one hand, and seek to eke out redemption that reaches even higher, then the true way does not lead upward, but toward the depths, since only my other leads me beyond myself. But acceptance of the other means a descent into the opposite, from seriousnesss into the laughable, from suffering into the cheerful, from the beautiful into the ugly, from the pure into the impure.”
― Carl Jung

“but from a very bad family, too, one can keep precious memories, if only one's soul knows how to seek out what is precious.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov