The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.
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.
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
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.
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.
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.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
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.
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.
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.
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