“Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.”

“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“That night Fay became a woman, making a secret of her pain, intent on saving her happiness with Albert, on showing wisdom and subtlety.”

“It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.”

“I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.”