...forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. 

-Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist, and professor (1915-1990)

...silent cost

Every extra step is a silent cost.

Complexity accumulates quietly; value doesn't.
What feels insignificant once becomes expensive when repeated thousands of times.

Victory & Defeat

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. 

-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)

All Quiet on the Western Front

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war. 

-Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (1898-1970), in "All Quiet on the Western Front"

...just play the hand

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

— Randy Pausch