When joy disappears, look for your mistake

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.