Andrea Haas

“Despair can come from deep grief, but it can also be a defense against the risks of bitter disappointment and shattering heartbreak. Resignation and cynicism are easier, more self-soothing postures that do not require raw vulnerability and tragic risk of hope. To choose hope is to step firmly forward into the howling wind, baring one's chest to the elements, knowing that, in time, the storm will pass.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“As for suffering I do not wish even the slightest; as for happiness I am never satisfied. In this, there is no difference between others and me. Bless me so I may take joy in others’ happiness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World