The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.
Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.
It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere.
Set realistic terms for its implementation
When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.
It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas...