Shakespeare, Thanos or Obama?

Reality is often disappointing

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone

I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again.

I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

I know that people think I'm not passionate enough. That I'm too cool. That I'm too detached. But as I was going through my daily routine — sitting alone in my study, meditating, thinking about how to win the future — I pondered this critique, and calmly rejected it as thoroughly illogical.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate — our actions matter.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within

No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn and always more to achieve

This day extracts a heavy toll

No legacy is so rich as honesty

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

The hardest choices require the strongest wills

Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now is no time at all.

Even when things are tough, don't lose respect for the other person

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.