“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”
"I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be."
- John Cheever
Aspirations
"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
- John Cheever
Optimism
"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