“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
"America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
- Thomas Wolfe
Hope
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
- Thomas Wolfe
Connection to Earth
"America – it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
- Thomas Wolfe
Optimism
"“America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”"
- Thomas Wolfe
Optimism
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
- Thomas Wolfe
Philosophy
"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