“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
"Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."
- W.H. Auden
Self-awareness
"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."
- W.H. Auden
Happiness
"Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
- W.H. Auden
Relationships
"The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise, it’s not worth the trouble."
- W.H. Auden
Reflection
"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