Do not rely on February . . . The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face.

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"It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

Love

"The sanest thing in this world is love."

- Anne Sexton

Love

"It doesn't matter who my father was; It matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

Belief in Self

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

Family

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

- Anne Sexton

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity