“Insofar as I have written a self-help book, it is a how-to manual for receptivity: a description of how to tolerate what cannot be cured, and an argument that cures are not always appropriate even when they are feasible.”

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”

“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“What cannot be cured must be endured.”

“6124. What cannot be cured,
Must be endured.”

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”