"The truest form of happiness lies in working hard and living frugally."
--Napolean, Animal Farm

And no, I am not a communist.

For the mouth speaks of what the heart is full of.

When a good and honourable man speaks, he takes it from the store of good things in his heart.

When an evil person speaks, he takes it from the store of defiled things in his heart.

For the mouth speaks, indeed, of what the heart is full of.

What the right hand does, the left hand must never know.
If the left hand ever knew of what the right hand did, the former would certainly take a butcher knife and chop off the latter.

a dark time calls for a darker analogy

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

"What the eye does not see, the heart never grieves for."

-an ancient adage
purportedly found by Ng Wei Li.

A little something in dark times....

"There's no salvation without suffering. It's cheap magic, but it's all we have."
-by Sandra Stansfield in The Breathing Method by Stephen King