missing you quotes for her

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. ~Dave Barry



Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Never let the little head do the thinking for the big head. ~Author unknown, advice to teenage boys, quoted in Friendly Advice compiled by Jon Winokur



Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. ~Edward Young



I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown



Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby



Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul



The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. ~Kuan Yin



The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. ~Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique



One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi



Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer



There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer



Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk



True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde



It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992



This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett



I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com