“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”

“Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.”

“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”