“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Awareness
"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Awareness
"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Happiness
"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Inspiration
"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Adversity
"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