"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop
Awareness
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
- Aesop
Awareness
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
- Aesop
Belief
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
Compassion
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
Compassion
"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