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Quote of the day 12/20/25

From Seneca: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

From Thomas Aquinas: “Patience is a virtue that preserves the soul against sadness.”

From William James: “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”

From William James: “Beyond the very extremes of fatigue and distress, men… break into a new realm of power and endurance.”

From Confucius: “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

From Boethius: “Nothing is miserable unless you think it so”

From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”

From Socrates: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”

From Pema Chödrön: “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

From Immanuel Kant: “Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”