When you see others smiling, do not assume that you are the only one who is sad; perhaps they are simply better at hiding their feelings. When you feel inferior in every aspect, remember that we are all just ordinary people. Our lives are spent pursuing happiness, and no one refuses happiness, just as we do not refuse a coat when we are cold or bread when we are hungry.
Among the easiest things in the world, procrastinating is the least effortful.
Go out and take a walk. What the world can offer you is often far greater than what our endless overthinking produces. When a person knows how to respect themselves, they do not settle for less, and it is this refusal to compromise that grants them taste. When a person knows how to respect others, they are not domineering, and it is this humility that grants them morality. When a person knows how to respect nature, they do not plunder, and it is this restraint that grants them sustainable wisdom.
Leisure is not only a humanistic taste, like dancing with a sword in a state of intoxication or reading the rain through a window, full of interest and delight; it is also an ecological taste. Humanistic taste leads to ecological taste, allowing the state of leisure to enter a higher realm.
Do not easily hurt people who are slow to warm up, for they are often twice as devoted in matters of the heart. The slower a relationship begins, the deeper the inner investment. The hesitation to start easily stems from the fear that leaving one day would bring unbearable pain. When you meet someone you admire, do not be afraid; seize every opportunity to win their heart. Because in this world, with confidence, there is no one you are not worthy of.