Often things are as bad as they seem.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.