My own banality haunts me. Everything I write feels vapid and yet I find myself craving to write more. I don't understand what's wrong with me.

My loyalty to my past- My most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me the most

Susan Sontag

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Pressing forward is not the same as running from your mistakes. So, Because we fall, the climb must be our destination.

When someone does you wrong, do not judge things as he interprets them or would like you to interpret them. Just see them as they are, in plain truth.
-Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is to not be like your enemy.