“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness."
- D. H. Lawrence
Awareness
"You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself."
- D. H. Lawrence
Self-awareness
"The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."
- D. H. Lawrence
Personal Growth
"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."
- D. H. Lawrence
Courage
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
- D. H. Lawrence
Reflection
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience