LOVE these quotes :D

"None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and ... they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self." ~Eugene O'Neill, "The Long Day's Journey into Night"

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." ~ Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizen in a Republic"