It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence. Beware of Pity

This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason Book II

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. The Return of the King

“They knew everything, the Brahmans and their holy books, they knew everything, they had taken care of everything and of more than everything, the creation of the world, the origin of speech, of food, of inhaling, of exhaling, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods, they knew infinitely much—but was it valuable to know all of this, not knowing that one and only thing, the most important thing, the solely important thing?” Siddhartha