“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
"You don9t choose your family. They are God9s gift to you."
- Desmond Tutu
Love
"Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse."
- Desmond Tutu
Awareness
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
- Desmond Tutu
Compassion
"We are each made for goodness, love, and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."
- Desmond Tutu
Compassion
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
- Desmond Tutu
Compassion
"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