I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything.
—Laura Wiess in Leftovers
Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.
—Lindsey Kelk in I Heart New York
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.
—Rachel Naomi Remen