It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy, Papa Pea would say.
It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can’t you just see its slow, peaceful decent?
I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn't understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way.
Every day is the prime of your life.
A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. Wearing blue jeans, she replied.
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
There are proponents of New Year's Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights. I am one of the latter, much happier residing in the wake of the mundane.
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.
Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded,
For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process…the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.
To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's...
Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.
Death demands its own designated punctuation mark. Maybe: ______ died/It is a dividing line / everything on this side is different.
ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.
When you woke up, for a moment you thought you were the moon.
In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.
I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means far-sickness, an ache for distance. Penny