“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
- Seneca
Courage
"When one has lost a friend, one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation."
- Seneca
Relationships
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Seneca
Success
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
- Seneca
New Beginnings
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
- Seneca
Happiness
"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