" Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. "

— Buddha

" What we think, we become. "

— Buddha

" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "

— Tryon Edwards

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery

" Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. "

— Dr. Seuss

" Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. "

— Thomas Wolfe