“Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.”
“We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.”
“We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.”
“We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.”
“We want God to be strong, so that we can be weak. But He wants to be weak so that we can be strong.”