“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures in the air.”
"Love is not about property, diamonds, and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you."
- Pablo Neruda
Love
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
- Pablo Neruda
Love
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
- Pablo Neruda
Love
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
- Pablo Neruda
Love
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines, I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
- Pablo Neruda
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