If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? 

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources.

Bruce Wayne, aka Batman

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Ayn Rand and Tyler Durden

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. 

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. 

The commonplace and the complacent

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

- Jack Kerouac

People who feel safe and secure in the existing society are frightened by ideas that threaten their power.  People who hold the power in society want nice complacent forms of entertainment, films that comfort people and support the status quo.

- Chuck Palahniuk