Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.