"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
"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."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Adversity
"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
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change