"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Belief
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Balance
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope
"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