"Love is friendship on fire."
- Susan Sontag
Love
"It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin."
- Susan Sontag
Love
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"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