“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise”
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.”
“Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.”
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”
“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...”