The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- True glory comes from overcoming despair and finding the strength to challenge life.
- In plain terms
- Your best moments happen when you rise from sadness to face challenges.
- What can you take from it?
- Resilience in despair defines true success.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When did you last rise from despair?
- What challenge feels like a promise?
Another view
It romanticizes suffering as necessary for glory.
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