“Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.”
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
- Alan Watts
Love
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"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