Brian Hamburg

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, — ‘Come out unto us.’ But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].”
― Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus