Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

“But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be n…”

“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil …”

“دل را نگاه دار! دل چو رفت سرنیز چه زود از پیِ دل می رود!”

“[...] let us go with all our "devils" to the help of our "god"!”