Anna

“The world itself is never overwhelmed or confused—only we are, due to how we are engaged with it. An”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew where she was. This time too, no one would come. But she no longer expected them to.
She smiled at the clear sky. With a little effort, she could get up by herself.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word.
“Pessi-what?”
“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.”
“Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle