“If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"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