Life will knock us down. But we can choose whether or not to get back up.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
— The game was too elaborate, you were enjoying yourself too much.
— There's no such thing as too much.
Complications set in — yes, complications. How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again. What is the secret? What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life? Are our appetites, our desires undermining us? Is the cart in front of the horse?
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
If it’s going to be a relationship of hardship and mental agony, you should put an end to it.
The first little while is the hardest, and then you move on.