Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them. A Confession

The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. Book VII

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. The Picture of Dorian Gray