Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu
What cannot be said will be wept.
Sappho
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
Simone De Beauvoir
Forever – is composed of Nows –
Emily Dickinson
"The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering. "
- C.G. Jung