“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Awareness
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment, and things left unsaid."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity
"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity
"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