" We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. "

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. "

— Max Muller

" The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. "

— Michel de Montaigne

" Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. "

— Mandy Hale

" Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension "

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

" A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. "

— Marian Sandmaier