“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"Fate measures us perhaps with the breadth of being, Which is strange to us; Just think how much distance there is between a girl and a man When she is avoiding him or thinking of him."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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