"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (last line of 'Ulysses', 1833)
"... Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; ... refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call the floating world ..." Japanese Asai Ryi talking about the idea of Ukiyo-e, or floating world, in 1661.