Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Adventure is not found in comfort; it is found in the unknown."

"The mind is a garden; you must tend it or it grows wild."

"I have desired peace, and built war instead."

"Justice is the art of giving people what they deserve, no more and no less."

"Patience is the virtue of those who have no other choice."

"I am thinking of the people I have loved and lost to time."

"Work is the place where we discover who we truly are."

"The dream dies not when the dreamer wakes, but when the dreamer stops dreaming."

"Imagination is the only weapon we have against despair."

"I have learned that money is the root of freedom and the root of chains."

"Health is not merely the absence of disease, but the presence of joy."

"Faith is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"A leader is one who lights the way for others to follow."

"I have never felt more alive than when facing my deepest fears."

"The power to create is the power to destroy."

"Strength is not the absence of pain, but the refusal to be defeated by it."

"I am grateful for the days I was not what I wished to be."

"Happiness is a butterfly; the more you chase it, the faster it flies away."

"The true measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."

"I have been a fool for love, and I would be again."

"The only real failure is the failure to try."

"Beauty fades, but art is eternal."

"Science explains the how; wisdom explains the why."

"I have danced with death and lived to tell the tale."

"The past is a foreign country; we cannot return to it, only learn from it."

"Literature is the voice of the ages speaking to us across time."

"I am a creature of summer, born to love and die."

"Justice wears a blindfold so that she sees all equally."

"The future is not written; it is painted by our choices."

"I have loved and lost, and found myself in the losing."