“My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.”
"I realize that my dreams for you have come true. What an extraordinary person you have become. As you continue to grow please remember always how very much I love you."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Love
"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Empowerment
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Joy
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Joy
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Joy
"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