“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love
"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love
"I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hope
"I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Resilience
""April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.""
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Change
"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