I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.
Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
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