“ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
—Hellen Keller

strength is not without humility,
its weakness and untreatable disease.
- bono, ave maria

“ You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
—Dr. Seuss, Oh The Places You’ll Go

“ we were in a little boat going out to a ship at night, the sun had set and the moon was rising over our heads. there were lovely silver lights upon the waves…
it was life, it was death.
—virginia woolf, the voyage out