Serenity

“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Require sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Do not believe that because you are a revolutionary you must feel sad.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshalled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.”
― Francis Galton