Hard question to answer philosophically; let me instead share a wall of my
favorite quotes
Investing in yourself is the best
investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your
life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
— Robin Sharma
I know that I know nothing.
— Socratic paradox
Without music, life would be a
mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The essential conditions of everything you
do must be choice, love, passion.
— Nadia Boulanger
The two most important days in your life
are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
— Attributed to Mark Twain
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and
understand, while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
— Albert Einstein
Try not to become a person of success,
but rather try to become a person of value.
— Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a
very persistent one.
— Attributed to Albert Einstein
If you’re going through hell, keep
going.
— Winston Churchill
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant
common sense.
— Josh Billings
Every burden is a blessing.
— Walt Kelly
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then
feed just one.
— Mother Teresa
Life is either a daring adventure or
nothing at all.
— Helen Keller
The most wasted day of all is that on
which we have not laughed.