Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.