„I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.“

— Sylvia Plath

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„And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.“
— Robert Baden-Powell
„The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.“
— George Orwell
„I miss the comfort in being sad.“
— Kurt Cobain
„I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.“
— Sarah Waters