“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 5
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You are not the oil, you are not the air, merely the point of combustion between them.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Crack-Up, 1936
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” — Dylan Thomas · Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, 1951
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.” — Benjamin Disraeli · Vivian Grey, 1826