“There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressible a wound that will never quite heal.”
"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal."
- Susan Wiggs
Adversity
"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible- a wound that will never quite heal."
- Susan Wiggs
Adversity
"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible — a wound that will never quite heal."
- Susan Wiggs
Adversity
"She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds."
- Susan Wiggs
Reflection
"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