Mine has been a life of much shame.

Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Let us put an end to this war. For we know how to win battles but not how to use our victories.

-- Hannibal

弱虫でもいいじゃないか。弱虫の一生だっていいじゃないか。

-- Shūsaku Endō

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

-- George Orwell

To know sufficiency is itself happiness.

-- Mori Ōgai

Know your own happiness.

-- Jane Austen