Ben

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols