“As I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.”
"Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life."
- Mary Roach
Courage
"Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history."
- Mary Roach
Courage
"Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history."
- Mary Roach
Courage
"“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.”"
- Mary Roach
Courage
"I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach."
- Mary Roach
Philosophy
"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