" How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. "

— A.A. Milne

" All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. "

— Blaise Pascal

" Silence is a true friend who never betrays. "

— Confucius

" Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. "

— Winston Churchill

" Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. "

— Carl Jung

" Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. "

— May Sarton