Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur SchopenhauerThus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.
Arthur Schopenhauer