If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.