Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child … - Anna Quindlen

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Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Anna Quindlen

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

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Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

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Not writing at all leads to nothing.

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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

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