Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
-Harlan Miller
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
-Maurice Setter
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
-Vernon Law
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
-Agatha Christie
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
-Viktor Frankl
An ungrieved loss remains forever alive in our unconscious, which has no sense of time.
-B.G. Simos
The second to last is my favorite and so very true.
ReplyDeleteThe less said the better-- sometimes. Though sometimes it is the things left unsaid that get you in the end
ReplyDeleteI love all of these. Especially the Settler and Christie ones.
ReplyDeleteSO true.
The marriage one was great, all of them are good though thanks.
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Oooh, Agatha Christie! Always very quotable and one of my all-time faves. (I like her autobiographical writings and Mary Westmacott books even more than her whodunits.)
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