What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Borrowed illusions are better than none.
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.