“I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed. I didn't know how common miscarriages were because we don't talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we're broken.”
"Don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
- Michelle Obama
Courage
"Grief and resilience live together."
- Michelle Obama
Resilience
"The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world."
- Michelle Obama
Connection to Earth
"Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives."
- Michelle Obama
Leadership
"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."
- Michelle Obama
Self-awareness
"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