In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after. " Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.
There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.