Calamities come in two types: misfortunes to us and good fortune for others.

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"Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage."

- Ambrose Bierce

Love

"An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

- Ambrose Bierce

Awareness

"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

- Ambrose Bierce

Hope

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

- Ambrose Bierce

Motivation

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

- Ambrose Bierce

Creativity

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"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