"Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy."
- Tupac Shakur
Happiness
"A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once."
- Tupac Shakur
Courage
"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on."
- Tupac Shakur
Adaptation
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."
- Tupac Shakur
Adversity
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."
- Tupac Shakur
Growth
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience