We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he deceives either himself or other people, and loves no one but himself. Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.

Boredom-the desire for desires.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.