Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
The sweetest happiness is one that we share.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.
I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it with other prisoners. And our feeling was we did not only lose the war, we lost also our honor.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.