“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
"Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."
- Alain de Botton
Hope
"If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun."
- Alain de Botton
Self-awareness
"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."
- Elder David A. Bednar
Strength
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
- Confucius
Strength
"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."
- Tunde Oyeneyin
Strength
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."
- Henry Rollins
Strength