Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

by Susan Cain

The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,”

It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.

“Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form.”

if you want to live a quiet life, you should just live a quiet life; that if you’re a humble person who has no use for the spotlight, to just be a humble person who has no use for the spotlight. No big deal.

There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in