"A man never is happy, but spends..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”

“The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.”

“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been”

“The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.”

“And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!”

“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“Health is the greatest possession.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”