“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
"New love is the brightest and long love is the greatest. But revived love is the tenderest thing known on earth."
- Thomas Hardy
Love
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
- Thomas Hardy
Courage
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
- Thomas Hardy
Philosophy
"Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings."
- Thomas Hardy
Nature
"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