"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." 

- Henry David Thoreau 

"Despair, or folly?   It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end  beyond all doubt.  We do not.  It is wisdom to recognise necessity, when  all other courses have been weighed."
 
- J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring