"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
- Aeschylus
Compassion
"There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief."
- Aeschylus
Adversity
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."
- Aeschylus
Growth
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in times of misery."
- Aeschylus
Reflection
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
- Aeschylus
Wisdom
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity