" Tragedy happens only when you are trying to live well, because for a heedless person who doesn’t have deep commitments to others, conflit isn't a tragedy. Now the lesson certainly is not to try to maximize conflict or to romanticize struggle and suffering, but it’s rather that you should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you. But you want people to live their lives with a deep seriousness of commitment: not to adjust their desires to the way the world actually goes, but rather to try to wrest from the world the good life that they desire. And sometimes that does lead them into tragedy. "

― Martha C. Nussbaum