“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.” — Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” — Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854