“When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.”
“And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.”
“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.”
“...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...”