Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

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"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

Imagination

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and look at it, until it shines."

- Emily Dickinson

Creativity

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

- Emily Dickinson

Compassion

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

Time Management

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

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"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