It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
How could we possibly forget those old myths that arise at the origin of all peoples, the myths about dragons, who at the points of greatest extremity transform themselves into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses, who are merely waiting to see us just once as beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything terrible is in essence only the helplessness that is seeking our help.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
—T.S. Eliot
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself. Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
If there is no wind in your sails, the only way out is to row.
—B. K. S. Iyengar
Your passion is your fate.
—Sam Mallin
I sail with every wind.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, “My Happiness”
To live ironically is to hide in public.
—Christy Wampole
For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.
—Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
They are what they will appear to be in the already plastic forms of the epic.
—Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
