What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
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The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.