What happiness it is...
after a day of seeking advantage in the world...
to come home to someone over whom the last thing in the world you would ever seek...
is an advantage.
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
What happiness it is...
after a day of seeking advantage in the world...
to come home to someone over whom the last thing in the world you would ever seek...
is an advantage.
"It's important to listen carefully. It keeps things from getting into your head that you may later mistake for your opinion."
"It is said that nothing lasts forever, but there are moments in our lives when we think something will, and it is the memory of those moments...
...that lasts forever."
"It seems, in youth, that everything we do is practice for the real thing, a rehearsal for some future grand debut. And then the years go by, and we look back and realize that the practice was the real thing, the rehearsal the grand debut."
~~ from my book A Few For The Road
Questions For The Home Commute
"Did I make some complicated thing simple today, or did I make some simple thing complicated?"
"Was it wise to spend another day trying to accomplish Thing B as a means of accomplishing Thing A?"
"What are the things in my life I most cherish, and what did I do today to cherish them?"
~~ from my book A Few For The Road
"You learn this -- that no situation in life that tests your patience is going to test just some of it."
I had this dream. It was my memorial service, and a friend said, "He was a person of good intention and sincere regret unfairly judged by his actions," and I'm thinking, "Yes!"
"Most sinners know who their forgivers will be, and that, more than anything, is what makes it a sin."
"One of the great frustrations of knowing history is having those who do not know history drag you back into it."
There's nothing like someone saying, "You're smarter than that" to make you wonder what other unfounded rumors might be circulating about you.
No matter how varied and complex our daily responsibilities, at the end of the day Mother Nature has just one question for us: "What life did you nurture today?"
What a treasure is a person of true self-esteem, who need not be humored or appeased,
who does not see disagreement as a personal affront or agreement as a show of weakness,
who does not feel threatened by the honest aspirations of others,
who does not mistake pride for honor, or prejudice for principle, or privilege for merit.
With such a person, conversation is possible; compromise is possible, and, dare we hope, even common civility is possible.
A phrase you hear a lot these days is, "You're overthinking this," which, to be honest, is not something I've noticed to be that widespread a problem.
"You come to realize - while there is still time, hopefully - that your potential for happiness is a vast virgin land, your current comfort zone just an encampment at its edge."
"A good rule of thumb for determining what's really important in life is that you wouldn't trade it in on a new one."
A Mind to rule the brain,
A Spirit to fire the mind,
A Heart to temper the spirit,
A Soul to guide the heart,
A Grace to nourish the soul.
"There is nothing owed with so little sense of debt, and given with so little thought of repayment, as a happy childhood."
"I've learned this about making a good first impression -- that obviously trying to do so works better than obviously not trying."
"If I choose to believe that we're all God's children, it's because I'm darn sure it's all or none."
"I don't know that love conquers all, but it conquers a lot, and a little forgiveness usually does for the rest."