"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
"How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity."
"How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone."
"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships."
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
