“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”
“So many things I'm not, and so few things I am.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
“You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.”