We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

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"You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it."

- Tennessee Williams

Awareness

"Luck is believing you’re lucky."

- Tennessee Williams

Belief

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

- Tennessee Williams

Compassion

"Whoever you are — I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

- Tennessee Williams

Compassion

"If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels."

- Tennessee Williams

Self-awareness

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"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