“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."
- Sylvia Plath
Love
"If the Moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."
- Sylvia Plath
Love
"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you."
- Sylvia Plath
Love
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
- Sylvia Plath
Awareness
"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person."
- Sylvia Plath
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