Source Unknown Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them. If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.