“We all live such distant and anonymous lives; disguised, we suffer the fate of strangers. To some, however, this distance between another being and ourselves is never revealed; to others it is revealed only every now and then, through horror or pain, lit by a limitless lightning flash; for yet others it is the one painful constant in their daily lives.”
"Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
- Fernando Pessoa
Love
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
- Fernando Pessoa
Love
"I know no other reason to love you than to love you."
- Fernando Pessoa
Love
"It’s been a long time since I’ve been me."
- Fernando Pessoa
Self-awareness
"In order to achieve the impossible, one must first try the absurd."
- Fernando Pessoa
Motivation
"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