You have to have confidence in the principle of action — that it can have an impact on your suffering. You’re not just a victim. You can come out victorious.

"You have to have confidence in the principle of action — that it can have an impact on your suffering. You’re not just a victim. You can come out victorious. After all, that’s what the images of the path often say: unexcelled victory. Victory over what? Over our ignorance, over our craving, over all our foolish tendencies. Our ways of looking for happiness that don’t really work out but we keep doing them again and again and again."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Reflecting on Karma"

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