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Quote of the day 03/16/26

From Laozi: “Do the difficult things while they are easy and the great things while they are small.”

From Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.”

From Viktor Frankl: “In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”

From Seneca: “A setback has often cleared the way for greater prosperity.”

From Epictetus: “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.”

From Leo Tolstoy: “If you want to be happy, be.”

From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God.”

From Confucius: “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

From Boethius: “Adversity reveals genius; prosperity conceals it.”