“The less you expect from others and yourself, the happier you will become in life.”

“The only way to cope with other people's disconnection (because it is so painful) is to become disconnected yourself. But then you become part of the problem. You make the world more dangerous and less conducive to the wellbeing of all life on earth.”

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

“I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.”

“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”

“The more you expect, the more you become a slave and chained down by your desires of wishing more for yourself.”

“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier, because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.”

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”