Derek Diemer

“His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round
For Athis, and he lay down by his side,
Solaced among the shades to share his death.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.”
― Robert Browning, Pauline: A Fragment of a confession

“What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants