“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you."
- Charlotte Brontë
Love
"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