As the new year approaches, I want to wish all my friends and family a Very Happy and Healthy New Year. The end of the year is a time to reflect on the past twelve months, take stock in our lives, and be grateful for those around us. I thought this would be an appropriate time to share some of my favorite quotes.
FAMILY, PARENTING, CHILDREN, LOVE
1) If you are a parent recognize that is the most important calling and rewarding challenge you have. What you do everyday, what you say and how you act, will do more to shape the future of America than any other factor. Anonymous
2) A man or a woman is simply the by product of their childhood. All their standards and every shred of their characters are formed in their homes by their parents....the man I become will be a reflection of who my parents were. Pat Conroy
3) There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. Anonymous
4) Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed. You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. Jonathan S. Foer
5) Dealing with growing children is like being in a batting cage with ball after ball being thrown at you. You hit the balls you can. Amazingly, the score gets kept for a very long time. Allen Shawn
6) All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family-it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. Meet my in-laws one of these nights. Douglas Coupland
7) Raising children is like waging a war. There will be triumphs, defeats, casualties! Bernie Mack
8) The loveliest fairytale of childhood is that everything happens in order. Philip Roth
9) Love is my decision to make your problem my concern. Robert Schuller
LIFE, HAPPINESS, MORALS, EDUCATION
1) No one else can give you happiness after you become an adult. Happiness is self derived and self created. Ellen Gilchrist
2) If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility. Dr. Paul Farmer
3) Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
4) The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Anonymous
5) The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. Anonymous
6) Q. What's the difference between ignorance and indifference
A. I don't know and I don't care. Saul Bellow
7) Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
8) I would love to be more patient. In fact, I would love to be patient. Manolo Blahnik
8) We do not do what we want, yet we are responsible for what we are. Sartre
POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND MUSIC
1) When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature? Barbery
2) One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors. Plato
3) Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
4) There's no spectacle that is as terrifying as the sight of a guest in your house whom you catch staring at your books. Not because the browser is going to criticize your reading tastes, but because you fear he's going to ask to borrow a book. Roger Rosenblatt
PAIN, AGING, DEATH
1) Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. H Murakami
2) We mustn't forget old people....And where's the joy in these final hours that they ought to be making the most of? But if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present. Barbery
3) Maybe all one can do is hope to end with the right regrets. Arthur Miller
4) The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
Dave Eggers
And a Final quote from One B:
You do it well, you get the fame. You screw up, you get the blame.
Peace Out-One B
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