Archives - February 2013

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Popular, I know about popular
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
You're only ever who you were
Popular, I know about popular
And all that you have to do is be true to you
That's all you ever need to know

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness --- and call it love --- true love.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Live truth instead of professing it.