"What shall I do now? What shall I do?" I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street … "What shall we do tomorrow? What shall we ever do?"

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

"There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."

David Foster Wallace, This is Water

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

"I went to Hell to resurrect it, how could you fail to respect it?"

J. Cole, Let Nas Down

"The essence of living as a human being is being challenged, being tempted, being called."

Abraham Joshua Heschel, On Prayer