Proofs.

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

All true romance is an attempt to simplify it, to cut it down to plainer and more pictorial proportions. What dullness there is in our life arises mostly from its rapidity; people pass us too quickly to show us their interesting side. 

G.K. Chesterton

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector