i miss you and love you quotes

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries



When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. ~Don Drysdale, 1978



There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965



Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas a Kempis



The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner



Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown



To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. ~Richard Bach



We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas



We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden



The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932



Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. ~Author Unknown



Nothing risque, nothing gained. ~Alexander Woollcott



All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown



Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin



But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh