“Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.”
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Adversity
"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Adversity
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Connection to Earth
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Connection to Earth
"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