A wise man would ignore the future and drink and carouse while he still has an opportunity to enjoy this world.

(Christopher Paolini)

Circumstances are beyond our human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

(Benjamin Disraeli)

Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our may through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute, we must march to the sound of drums.

(Star Trek)

‘Tis but a part we see, not a whole.

(Alexander Pope)

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent what you take it.

It is better to stand and fight. If you run, you'll only die tired.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

(Epicurus)