“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.”
"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people, but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and place, because you’ll never be this way again."
- Azar Nafisi
Reflection
"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