You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, And all work is empty save when there is love; And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob Riis

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.David Graeber

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.Carl Jung

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.William Shakespeare