“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
"It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do."
- Jane Austen
Love
"To love is to burn, to be on fire."
- Jane Austen
Love
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."
- Jane Austen
Love
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
- Jane Austen
Love
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever."
- Jane Austen
Love
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience