In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

You are not a fish — how do you know the fish's pleasure?

-- Zhuang Zhou

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- Laozi