“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
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin · "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," New York Times Book Review, 1962