"Sadness and depression will fly away on the wings of time."
- Jean de La Fontaine
Hope
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
- Jean de La Fontaine
Relationships
"I bend but do not break."
- Jean de La Fontaine
Resilience
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
- Jean de La Fontaine
Reflection
"The pain of parting is short."
- Jean de La Fontaine
Philosophy
"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