“The unwise man is awake all night worries over and again. When morning rises he is restless still, his burden as before.”
"It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of your fellow man."
- The Havamal
Awareness
"Go you must. No guest shall stay in one place for ever. Love will be lost if you sit too long at a friend’s fire."
- The Havamal
Relationships
"Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight."
- The Havamal
Courage
"Be your friend’s true friend. Return gift for gift. Repay laughter with laughter again but betrayal with treachery."
- The Havamal
Connection to Earth
"Wake early if you want another man’s life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battle’s won in bed."
- The Havamal
Ambition
"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