Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.
If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. ("Sisyphus' hardship on the hill")
Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.
Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling,...