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Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."
You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.
Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.
If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.
When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.