Naif

“وإذا ابتُلِيتَ بمِحْنةَ فالبس لها ... ثوبَ السكوتِ فإن ذلك أسلمُ
لا تشكوَن إلى العباد فإنما ... تشكو الرحيمَ إلى الذي لا يَرْحَم”
― ابن قتيبة, عيون الأخبار

“All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism