When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.