Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.