„Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains. And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion there stretch the wide plains of my peace and surrender. All landscapes are within me. And there is room for everything. The earth is in me, and the sky. And I well know that something like hell can also be in one, though I no longer experience it in myself, but I can still feel it in others with great intensity. And that is as it should be, or else I might grow too complacent.“

— Etty Hillesum

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„I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness…“
— Emily Dickinson
„Believe me, I work, I drudge, I grind all day long and I do so with pleasure, but I should get very much discouraged if I could not go on working as hard or even harder... I feel, Theo, that there is a power within me, and I do what I can to bring it out and free it. It is hard enough, all the worry and bother with my drawings, and if I had too many other cares and could not pay the models I should lose my head.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …“
— Morrie Schwartz
„Only God Can Judge MeThat which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live mylife“
— Tupac Shakur
„Ill as well, and I have not been brave. Then face to face with the suffering of these attacks I feel very frightened too.... All the same I know well that healing comes - if one is brave - from within through profound resignation to suffering and death, through the surrender of your own will and of your self-love. But that is no use to me, I love to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life - artificial - if you like.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.“
— William Shakespeare