There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.