"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
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
"Tuesdays are for chasing rainbows and dancing in the rain."
Joy
"You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness."
Joy
"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!"
Joy
"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."
- W. C. Jones
Joy