It’s hard to believe that tomorrow will be better when yesterday’s tomorrow wasn’t. When pain lasts so long, it’s hard to believe that any tomorrow will be better. But it will.

She was a homemaker — the person responsible for making the home.

“Life isn’t an emergency. We take our own goals so seriously we forget to have fun along the way.... The first step in becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you’re creating your own emergencies.” — Richard Carlson

Many days we try hard, put in lots of effort, and give it our best just to come in third. Third is a hard pill to swallow for any of us. We want to be first. We want our name in the record books. We want to be known for something. 

I nearly walked on by, too preoccupied with my own misery to see his.

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Arthur Gordon

Without “I’m sorry,” those unkind words and deeds, once said and done, continue to float around us, wear us down, keep us unhappy. Forgiveness and “forgetness” never come because they haven’t been asked for.

Solutions will present themselves if we look for them — if we’re flexible enough to bend with the problem instead of struggle against the problem — if we learn to wiggle through life.

There is this tenderness about you that melts me. It draws me in and smothers me with gentleness. It’s like a huge pillow that protects me on all sides.