Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
What are memories but dreams of a better past.
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."
Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
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