„Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.“

— Bram Stoker

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„Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.“
— Hermann Hesse
„After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain; it is thought, too, that to enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on virtue of character. For these things extend right through life, with a weight and power of their own in respect both to virtue and to the happy life, since men choose what is pleasant and avoid what is painful; and such things, it will be thought, we should least of all omit to discuss, especially since they admit of much dispute.“
— Aristotle
„At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.“
— Frida Kahlo
„This is so weird. I keep expecting the truck to start sinking.""I can't believe you just went through what we went through and you think this is weird.“
— Cassandra Clare
„We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.“
— Charles Bukowski