Quote by Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

You don't need to be the strongest or the most gifted to achieve remarkable things — you need to keep showing up. Repetition, patience, and consistency wear down obstacles that brute force cannot. This is as true for developing a skill as it is for changing a mind or building a life.

Ovid was writing during the reign of Augustus, a period of cultural flourishing in Rome but also political control. His exile — the reasons for which remain debated — came in 8 CE and marked the end of his life as a celebrated Roman poet. Much of his later work was written in sadness and frustration from the distant frontier.

Roman poet who lived 43 BCE–17 CE, best known for Metamorphoses — a sweeping epic of mythological transformation — and the Art of Love. He was one of the most prolific and influential poets of the Augustan age but was exiled by Emperor Augustus to the Black Sea coast, where he spent the rest of his life.