Connie’s Reviews > Flowers of Grass > Status Update

"If you feel like yelling, you might as well go ahead—that's what I’d call spiritual hygiene. [...] If you feel like crying, cry. Laugh, if you feel like laughing. That's what's natural. But for some reason we’ve all been wrongly brought up to believe that virtue lies in repressing our feelings. I'm not claiming it's all right to be unreasonable, but after thinking it over a bit I realize how much harm it's done me not to cry when I wanted to cry, not to get angry when I felt like it. To be alive means to express yourself, to burn yourself up. To live fully, you have to set your emotions aflame.”