A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages…For what I have always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort…this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. - Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare, Hamlet

If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill