It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.
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?
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
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.
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.
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.
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.
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
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.
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
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.
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
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.
Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
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