“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
"There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits."
- Robert Southey
Love
"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
- Robert Southey
Love
"time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."
- Robert Southey
Relationships
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."
- Robert Southey
Resilience
"Live as long as you may. The first 20 years are the longest half of your life."
- Robert Southey
Philosophy
"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