Jake

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

“It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The happiness which they (the philosophers) meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

“Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be.”
― Erin Mckittrick, A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski