Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

– Conan

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

David Foster Wallace (although he may have been quoting someone else)

Better a pig than a fascist

Porco Rosso

“If it is too hard to cope with failure, how can you ever be able to handle success?” -Unknown.

This too shall pass

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

“Life is far too serious for me to take it seriously.”

“We choose to go to the moon” was the first thing that popped into my mind.

And related to OPs quote. “If you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life”.

“The best way to handle, to take care of the future, is to take care of the present moment.  What else can you do?”

— Thich Nhat Hanh,  The Art Of Mindful Living

Only you can take a sad song and make it better.

“Though the grease burns out of the torch, the fire passes on, and no one knows where it ends.” -Zhuangzi

“The injury that is to be done to a man should be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. “

• Machiavelli

Some things are in our control and others not.

Epictitus, The Enchiridion

I don’t ask for permission. I ask for forgiveness.