No one can buikd you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. - Nietzsche

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received. - C.S. Lewis

We all have regrets and most of us know that those regrets, as excruciating as they can be, are the things that help us lead improved lives.. They require our attention. You have to do something with them. One way is to seek forgiveness by making what might be called living amends, by using whatever gifts you may have in order to help rehanilitate the world. - Nick Cave

To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. - Herman Melville

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me... there is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spirtualising of the soul. - Oscar Wilde