“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, 'My tooth is aching' than to say, 'My heart is broken.'”
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
- C.S. Lewis
Change
"The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
- C.S. Lewis
Faith
"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."
- C.S. Lewis
Faith
"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