“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
"Many, if not most, inherently human triumphs are invisible, unsexy, and deeply personal. Inner work is impossible to describe to others and almost always goes unrewarded because it is not monumental in the conventional sense."
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”