Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not.

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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Awareness

"Then followed that beautiful season…Summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspiration

"Softly the evening came with the sunset."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspiration

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"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