A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.