After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.