Ryan Gallagher

“Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“[Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.”
― Epictetus

“Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.”
― Epictetus

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring