“Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen”
"It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"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