“But we have not understood the world; how its way is to destroy without destroying, the way air levels a mountain; things fly apart in a vacuum...It wears us to the hard thing we cannot help being;and if the only hard thing is our determinationnot to be hard, it wears us down to that.”

“Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths. ”

“Instead of being fascinated by the things around us, we now try so hard to fascinate others by the things on us.”

“When we make something hard to use, people get upset. They become so angry that they want to destroy it. We don’t want to create things that people will want to destroy”

“We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.”

“Life is strange sometimes. It throws things at us that, at the moment the events are happening, we can’t possibly believe or understand they could be good in any way, we can’t believe it’s what’s supposed to happen to us. But sometimes really hard things that make us hurt, that make us struggle, that make us fight for what we want, are blessings in disguise. Sometimes we have to live through them in order to have a better appreciation of our lives and the good things that happen.”