“"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."”
"“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”"
- Charles Lamb
Balance
"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."
- Charles Lamb
Compassion
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."
- Charles Lamb
Compassion
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
- Charles Lamb
Self-awareness
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
- Charles Lamb
Self-awareness
"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