The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.
The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.
Silence is the garden of thought.
If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?
Indeed you did your best. . . I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.