"To be beautiful, tragedy is necessary. The more the hero is the master of the tragedy, the more beautiful the tragedy becomes."
— Yojūrō Yasuda, on Yukio Mishima

“Faith sees best in the dark.”
— Kierkegaard

“It is not what happens to me that makes me great but what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the grand prize in the lottery.”
— Kierkegaard

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
— Hemingway

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In the darkness, a voice whispered unto me, "You can not withstand the storm".

And I whispered back into the darkness, "I am the storm".

"Practice the art of testing whether particular things are actually good or not. Learn to wait and assess instead of always reacting from untrained instinct. Spontaneity is not a virtue in and of itself." — Epictetus

"I write for a breed of men that does not yet exist: for 'the lords of the earth'".

“Look at your habits: are they the product of numberless little acts of cowardice and laziness, or of your bravery and inventive reason?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche