Karen Russell Quote

An affected health has come in contact with worry

A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where...

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...