We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear.

Do not seek for things to happen as you wish; wish for them to happen as they do, and you will find peace.

-- Epictetus

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.

-- Seneca

Virtue lies in the middle.

-- Aristotle

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

-- Hypatia

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

-- Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

-- Bertrand Russell