“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
"We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither."
- Jennifer Donnelly
Compassion
"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good."
- Jennifer Donnelly
Resilience
"Meet me where the sky touches the sea."
- Jennifer Donnelly
Connection to Earth
"The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart."
- Jennifer Donnelly
Inner Peace
"“We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.”"
- Jennifer Donnelly
Empowerment
"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