Hope

“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

“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

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

“The weapon, our weapon, is the desire and tendency to answer a simple question: What can I do to make this work? In any situation, what can I do to get what I want? Some people, after college, will move back home and sit in their parents' basements, blaming the unpredictable economy and the truly bizarre job market. That's how they will make this world work for them. But not us. The ones who refuse to take no for an answer. We will make our way in spite of the fact that the America this generation has been given is not the America that this generation was told we would get. Is this the land of opportunity? No. Now we're dealing with the land of strategy. Obstacles? We must see none. Dilemmas? They must be all the more fun. We will succeed. We just have to find a way.”
― Paul Downs Colaizzo