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Now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that, recognizing that when any of us mother - when we listen, nuture, nourish, protect - we're doing sacred work.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.
I don`t like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Maybe who we are isn`t so much about what we do, but rather what we`re capable of when we least expect it.
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
If you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself then the truth will not be withheld from you.
The wonderful thing about falling in love is that you learn everything about that person and so quickly. And if it`s true love then you start to see yourself through their eyes and that brings up the best in you. It`s almost as if you`re falling in love with yourself.
The funny thing about weddings is you end up thinking about yourself.
While we try not to think about it, nearly the only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we will one day die and leave everything behind; and yet, paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to believe that this is so.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.