I absolutely love this poem by Vaclav Havel, a playwright who spent
four years in prison for his human rights activism, only to triumph to
become president of the Czech Republic,

It is I who must begin ...Once I begin, once I try - here and now, right where I am, not excusing myself by saying that things would be easier elsewhere, without grand speeches and ostentatious gestures, but all the more persistently - to live in harmony with the "voice of Being," as I understand it within myself - as soon as I begin that, I suddenly discover, to my surprise, that I am neither the only one nor the first one to have set out upon that road ...
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost ...