People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.