“They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…”
"It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all."
- Ranata Suzuki
Love
"If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart."
- Ranata Suzuki
Love
"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you."
- Ranata Suzuki
Love
"I had always wanted to hear those words. I had always wanted to be your girl."
- Ranata Suzuki
Love
"It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it"
- Ranata Suzuki
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