"He who
is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not
advance, falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who
ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the
stationary condition is the beginning of the end—it is the terrible symptom
which precedes death. To live, is to achieve a perpetual triumph: it is to
assert one's self against destruction, against sickness, against the annulling
and dispersion of one's physical and moral being. It is to will without
ceasing, or rather to refresh one's will day by day."
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel
