“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
"What we feel, think and are determined in large part by our viscera and ductless glands."
- Aldous Huxley
Awareness
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley
Awareness
"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical orientation."
- Aldous Huxley
Compassion
"Experience Is Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do With What Happens To You."
- Aldous Huxley
Personal Growth
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
- Aldous Huxley
Personal Growth
"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