In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Confucuius translations vary greatly.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Speech at Writers' Conference. Translation by E. Levin. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. I have in irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. Lincoln Complete possession is proved only by giving.