“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” — Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” — Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2