To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.