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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
― Seneca

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
― Alexis Carrel

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, ‘I want a fig,’ I’ll reply, ‘That takes time.”
― Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“The mind must be given relaxation—it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced—for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break—so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind. But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while. Constant work gives rise to a certain kind of dullness and feebleness in the rational soul.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND,”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
― Pindar