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