Quotation by D.H. Lawrence

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. letter, Oct. 31, 1913. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).
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