Andrew

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
― Mark Twain

“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore