"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

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"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

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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

Contentment

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

Contentment

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

Contentment

"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."

Contentment

"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."

Contentment