"As long as we love, there will always be Christmas."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love
"Let the beauty of the sunrise keep your heart warm."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love
"The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Awareness
"No dream is too big to come true. You are born to manifest the glory of God on earth."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Belief
"Good heart leads to good work with the hands."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Compassion
"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