Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.