Theodore N. Vail on difficulty

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

—Theodore N. Vail

Paul Kalanithi on perseverance

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

—Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Musashi Miyamoto on triumph

Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

—Musashi Miyamoto, The Book of Five Rings

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