I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.