"I am divine and natural force Compared to the sound of a madrigal I want everything, I am everything I am particles of what remains."
There is a certain shame in being happy in the face of certain miseries.
Jean de La Bruyère
The entire form of art is an attempt to rationalize a conflict of emotions in the artist's mind.
Robert Graves
“Wanting to “have” Knowledge is not wanting to be Free or seek Freedom, but being trapped by the desire to Discover”.
Henry of Shivas
Joy and sadness are two prisons; one of gold and one of iron, but equally made to bind us and prevent us from following our true nature.
Swami Vivekananda
Why do you say I wish I was happy and you don't say I wish I were mediocre? Because you would say the same thing. And what he proves by saying this is that after all, it already was...
Vergílio Ferreira