“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
"Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it."
- Nicholas Sparks
Love
"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
- Nicholas Sparks
Love
"What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love."
- Nicholas Sparks
Love
"I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart."
- Nicholas Sparks
Love
"Every couple needs to argue now and then, just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys."
- Nicholas Sparks
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