but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.