Muhammad Adrian

“The same desire that you might find enough patience in you to endure, and simplicity enough to have faith; that you might gain more and more trust in what is hard and in your own loneliness among other people. And otherwise let life take its course. Believe me: life is right, whatever happens.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I see now where I’ve gone wrong. It’s taken me too long to see it and you all had to suffer for that. I’ll be grateful to you, to all the people who have tolerated what I am, until the end of my days.”
― Dan Mooney, Me, Myself and Them

“Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of forming and creating, as a particularly happy and pure way of living. School yourself for it, but take what comes in complete trust, and as long as it is a product of your will, of some kind of inner necessity, accept it and do not despise it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet