"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won."

~Ayn Rand

Who know Ayn Rand could be encouraging? I mean, it's a biting, vaguely unsettling kind of encouraging, but still!