There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.