A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.

It takes immaturity to be hurt by the fact that someone does not trust you.

Being deemed a fool, even if it is done by a fool, does not hurt, unless you are a fool.