April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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"April is the kindest month."

- T.S. Eliot

Compassion

""April is the kindest month.""

- T.S. Eliot

Compassion

"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."

- T.S. Eliot

Hope

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life."

- T.S. Eliot

Integrity

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

- T.S. Eliot

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"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

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"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