“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
- Voltaire
Love
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination."
- Voltaire
Love
"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."
- Voltaire
Love
"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
- Voltaire
Awareness
"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."
- Voltaire
Awareness
"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