"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
"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