“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”

“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”