„This difficult living, heavy and as if all tied up,moving through that which has been left undone,is like the not-quite-finished walk of the swan.And dying, this slipping away fromthe ground upon which we stand every day,is his anxious letting himself fall—:into the waters, which receive him gladlyand which, as if happily already gone by,draw back under him, wave after wave;while the swan, infinitely calm and self-assured,opener and more magnificentand more serene, allows himself to be drawn on.“

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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„Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„… and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and—above all— apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.“
— Erwin Rommel
„The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh