You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you, the more you insist, the more you bleed: it suits you to say you carry the cross like a sacred duty, whereas you are heavy with the weight of your necessities. Have the courage not to admit those necessities and lift yourselves up for your own sakes.Carlo Michelstaedter
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The world abounds with people who are too afraid to be fully alive. They are afraid of what they might become, what they might do, and who they might become. They see their choices as limited by the choices of others. And so they make excuses for fear.
The elderly woman in the quote above is living her life according to the idea that she is bound by her own weakness and limitations rather than by her own strength. She is afraid of her own self-sufficiency and therefore, she fears that she is causing herself pain.
Source: Persuasion And Rhetoric
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