Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Kindness ripples through the world in ways we cannot measure."

"I am the author of my own story."

"The strongest person is one who has learned to forgive."

"I refuse to be conquered by fear."

"I have the power to change the world."

"Money is temporary; memories are eternal."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"It is not enough to have had a chance at life; one must make something of it."

"I have a rendezvous with life, not death."

"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things."

"I will put Chaos into fourteen lines and keep him there."

"If you have had your heart broken, you know that love is the most powerful force in existence."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is the beginning of freedom."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and women."

"Fear is the most terrible thing, but cowardice is worse than fear."

"Time cannot rob us of the joy of doing things we love."

"A poem should not mean, but be."

"Beauty can pierce one like pain."

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing what to do with it."

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

"There is nothing wrong with doing the same thing over and over again if you love what you do."

"To love is to become vulnerable to loss."

"I dare not claim that I have lived; I have only dreamed that I lived."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

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

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"I have loved greatly; I have been loved; and I have experienced profound loneliness."