The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

I know you not quite wellYet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spellNow my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.