Helmut

“I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.”
― Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 7: Prince Ajatasattu

“Then I find I'm not ashamed after all. I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. I hope they get hard at the sight of us and have to rub themselves against the painted barriers, surreptitiously. They will suffer, later, at night, in their regimented beds. They have no outlets now except themselves, and that's a sacrilege.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Necessité fait gens méprendre
Et faim saillir le loup du bois.”
― François Villon

“Es ist ein Brauch von Alters her:
Wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör.
Doch wer zufrieden und vergnügt,
sieht zu, daß er auch welchen kriegt.”
― H.C. Wilhelm Busch, Die fromme Helene