“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
- Markus Zusak
Hope
"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are."
- Markus Zusak
Self-esteem
"I'd rather chase the Sun than wait for it."
- Markus Zusak
Ambition
"“All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.”"
- Markus Zusak
Reflection
"It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement."
- Markus Zusak
New Beginnings
"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