You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.