Mark

“It is not things that trouble us,” as Epictetus said, “but our judgment about things,”
― Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“[Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone.”
― James Tiptree Jr.