You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend. . . a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.