A nice quotation:
Just before death Rabbi Sussja said: ‘In the next world no one will ask me, “Why were you not Moses?”; they will ask me, “Why were you not Sussja?”’
(quoted in the introduction to Eberhard Hermes, ed., The ‘Disciplina Clericalis’ of Petrus Alfonsi)
(a.k.a. Zusha or Zusya.)