"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship."
- David Foster Wallace
Awareness
"You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."
- David Foster Wallace
Awareness
"You’ll stop caring what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."
- David Foster Wallace
Self-awareness
"I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader... imaginative access to other selves."
- David Foster Wallace
Empathy
"I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves."
- David Foster Wallace
Empathy
"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