Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

When we become attached to the outcome, we inadvertently fuel our own suffering. Learning to enjoy the process rather than fixating on results leads to happiness.

We are both desperately important to our children and absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. It takes enormous wisdom to see that there is no inconsistency in those two points of view.

Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee, Rama series

What a blessing it is to be tired in the pursuit of a challenge of your own choosing.

The only thing holding you back is your ability to do the work you need to do, without witness or immediate reward, for a long enough period of time.

Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Stand firm in the seat of the witness and release the hold that the habitual mind has on you.

Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul