" Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. "

— Unknown

" I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. "

— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

" Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. "

— Confucius

" A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life. "

— Deborah Tannen

" Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. "

— Martha Washington