Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

There will always be time to imagine a different ending.

The memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones.

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

-- Zeno of Citium

To know sufficiency is itself happiness.

-- Mori Ōgai

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

-- Alexander Pushkin

Be not defeated by the rain, be not defeated by the wind.

-- Kenji Miyazawa

What is true happiness, really?

-- Kenji Miyazawa