Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone for others. Unfold your own myth.
—Rumi
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
—Viktor Frankl