Peter Wellington, "The Stoned Diaries"

Every complaint actually means -- I can't believe this is happening and I'm going to die.

Adam Phillips, "Worrying and Its Discontents"

Worrying is an ironic form of hope.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Like so many other things, people have also misunderstood the position love has in life; they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure are more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, precisely because it is the supreme happiness, can be nothing other than work. —So those who love must try to act as if they had a great work to accomplish: they must be much alone and go into themselves and gather and concentrate themselves; they must work; they must become something.

Shakespeare, As You Like It

I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are dispos'd to be merry. I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclin'd to sleep.

— Rosalind

Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.