“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.” — Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer · "Counsels and Maxims", 1851