“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.”
"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Resilience
"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Learning
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Belief in Self
"In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Belief in Self
""In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.""
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Belief in Self
"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