“Education...is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning...by praise, but above all, by example.”
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
- John Ruskin
Awareness
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
- John Ruskin
Balance
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
- John Ruskin
Balance
"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
- John Ruskin
Compassion
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
- John Ruskin
Personal Growth
"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