"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?"
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."
- J.D. Salinger
Awareness
"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- J.D. Salinger
Adversity
"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