Please be kinder to yourself!
It's hard Keeping up with the avant-garde.
How happy is the Optimist To whom life shows its sunny side His horse may lose, his ship may list, But he always sees the funny side.
For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, But nurses are bound that they do things for you.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Aunts are discreet, a little shy By instinct. They forbear to pry.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
Most things are not as risky as they seem.
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim