The Comfort Book

You have felt other things. You will feel other things again.

To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

inside deep despair, the knowledge of better times

Pain is selfish. It demands full attention. But each moment is part of a totality.

the flow of life is about accepting things as part of something bigger.

Individual events mean nothing by themselves, but are part of a larger totality and can only be understood within the whole.

there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.

There is no point spending an entire life trying to win the love you didn’t feel when you needed it.

Which possibly explains why one of the simplest and quickest routes to happiness seems to be to make someone else happy.