“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols, 1889
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891