"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul
Hope
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
- Jean Paul
Reflection
"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
- Jean Paul
Reflection
"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."
- Jean Paul
Wisdom
"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."
- Jean Paul
Wisdom
"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