Pain is certain; suffering is optional.

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"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world."

- Buddha

Compassion

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

New Beginnings

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha

Love

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

- Buddha

Love

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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