
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
"Life was to me a horse to whose motion one yields, but only after having trained the animal to the utmost."

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't you see how anything that happens is always yet another beginning?"

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
“There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.”