"If you wished to be loved, love."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Compassion
"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Compassion
"Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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