"Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths."
- George R.R. Martin
Compassion
"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."
- George R.R. Martin
Self-awareness
"A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf."
- George R.R. Martin
Self-awareness
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R.R. Martin
Personal Growth
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R.R. Martin
Personal Growth
"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