"Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture, dignity and love."
- John Milton
Love
"Solitude sometimes is best society."
- John Milton
Self-awareness
"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."
- John Milton
Inspiration
"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
- John Milton
Adversity
"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
- John Milton
Creativity
"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