“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”
“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”