"So many things become beautiful when you really look"
- Lauren Oliver
Awareness
"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom."
- Lauren Oliver
Motivation
"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: You’re so close to freedom."
- Lauren Oliver
Motivation
"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt."
- Lauren Oliver
Strength
"Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep."
- Lauren Oliver
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