If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller