“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” — Vladimir Nabokov · Speak, Memory, 1951
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” — Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946