Tao Te Ching

“It is our duty to set ourselves an end beyond our individual concerns, beyond our convenient, agreeable habits, higher than our own selves, and disdaining laughter, hunger, even death, to toil night and day to attain that end... Not to attain it, but never to halt in the ascent. Only then does life acquire nobility and oneness.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco