Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
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