First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
We touch other people's lives simply by existing.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.