It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. Man's Search For Meaning

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. On the Suffering of the World

“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.” Stranger

There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives. Day's Collacon