Adi

“Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“To think too much is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground