"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Epicurus
Courage
"You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Epicurus
Courage
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
- Epicurus
Connection to Earth
"Live life simply and purely, without confusion."
- Epicurus
Simplicity
"I was not. I was. I am no more. I don’t care."
- Epicurus
Philosophy
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
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
"To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to the happiness you could have."
- Matsumoto Rangiku
Adversity