“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony."
- Douglas Coupland
Awareness
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
- Douglas Coupland
Self-awareness
"I think if human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just Halloween. Wouldn’t life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don’t they?"
- Douglas Coupland
Courage
"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
- Douglas Coupland
Reflection
""Adventure without risk is Disneyland.""
- Douglas Coupland
Taking Risks
"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