It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

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"Each time you happen to me all over again."

- Edith Wharton

Love

""Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there""

- Edith Wharton

Love

"Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins."

- Edith Wharton

Awareness

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

Compassion

"There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

Compassion

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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