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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

She claims she just turned thirty, but it must have been a U-turn!

- Elmer Pasta

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

- James M. Barrie

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

- Teresa of Avila

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

- Susan Sontag

Bed is the poor man's opera.

- Italian proverb

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

- John Richelsen

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

- O. Hallesby

Not greedy of filthy lucre.

- Bible

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

- Erma Bombeck