Sempiternele

“Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form... He is much more an experiment and a transition. He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“It was only after the illness that I understood how important it is to affirm one’s own destiny. In this way we forge an ego that does not break down when incomprehensible things happen; an ego that endures, that endures the truth, and that is capable of coping with the world and with fate. Then, to experience defeat is also to experience victory. Nothing is disturbed—neither inwardly nor outwardly, for one’s own continuity has withstood the current of life and of time. But that can come to pass only when one does not meddle inquisitively with the workings of fate. I”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“I can’t take things as they come, or make them come as I choose.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath