“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Love
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Compassion
"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Overcoming Obstacles
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Spirituality
"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