“They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.”
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, and risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Love
"Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."
- Erica Jong
Love
"This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away."
- Erica Jong
Love
"Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss."
- Erica Jong
Love
"A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs your heart is very big."
- Erica Jong
Love
"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