#hardships

"Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)"