Man's search for meaning

• don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
• "Man is defined as a being who can get used to anything" - Dostoevsky
• "There are things that must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose" - lessens
• Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death
• No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same
• "There is only one thing that I dread - not to be worthy of my sufferings" - Dostoevsky
• "Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already" - Bismarck
• "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how" - Nietzsche
• ...It does not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us...
• When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude
• Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
• Every thing is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find