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.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.