Harsh

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
― Anton Chekhov

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment