Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. – Plato

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld