Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor