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