“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
― Epictetus

"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable"
― Socrates

"The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.”
― Seneca

"You cannot believe now that you'll ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now."
— Abraham Lincoln

“Comparison is the thief of joy”
― Theodore Roosevelt

" To live is to suffer. To survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Atomized, disconnected people with no identity or greater purpose than to consume."
― Gerbert Johnson

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something”
― Plato