Christina Rossetti

"Philosophy is the art of living well."

"Literature is the immortality of human experience."

"Politics is the compromise between ideals and reality."

"War is the failure of all other languages."

"Motivation comes not from outside but from within."

"Inspiration strikes those prepared to receive it."

"In relationships, vulnerability is the highest form of courage."

"Solitude is the company of the self."

"Success is measured not by wealth but by character."

"Hope is the most powerful force in the human spirit."

"The world will little note what we say, but it can never forget what we do."

"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

"Silence like the catbird's song can hold more meaning than a thousand words."

"A heart without dreams is like a bird without wings."

"In every life, there comes a season of sorrow and a season of joy."

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"The greatest strength lies not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall."

"Love will make a way out of no way."

"Truth is like the sun; it cannot be hidden for long."

"Art is the language of the soul speaking to itself."

"Hope is the thing that sustains us when all else seems lost."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Nature speaks in whispers to those willing to listen."

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul."

"Death is but a doorway to something beyond our understanding."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."

"Time is the gift we cannot buy and cannot return once spent."

"Beauty resides not in perfection, but in authenticity."