Hope

“Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions. That's why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons - Fear and Panic - were spawned from both war and love.'
'But I don't...this doesn't make sense.'
'No,' Piper agreed. 'Stop thinking about it. Just feel.'
'I hate that.'
'I know. You can't plan for feelings. Like with Percy, and your future - you can't control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Experience is by industry achiev'd,
And perfected by the swift course of time.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire