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Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.
I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
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.
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.
It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.