"We are born of love; love is our mother."
- Rumi
Love
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
- Rumi
Self-awareness
"This love is the rose that blooms forever."
- Rumi
Love
"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."
- Rumi
Resilience
"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."
- Rumi
Resilience
"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