Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.