I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYAny woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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