The Final Cliches - "The Surrendered Wife" Part V

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. - Madeleine L'Engle

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Anonymus

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

If you mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too. - Sue Grafton

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. - John Harrigan

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Frances

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. - Vincent McNabb

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently. - Keith Bellows

That's enough, and enough is too much. - Popeye

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. - Sloan Wilson

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. - Leo Buscaglia

Oh, I'm scared all the same! I just act as if I'm not. - Katharine Hepburn

How unhappy is he who cannot forgi e himself. - Publilius Syrus

There's always room for improvement, you know - it's the biggest room in the house. - Louise Heath Leber

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail Shelley

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

Rare is the personn who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scal. - Byron Langfield

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa

We seldom attribute, common sense except to those who agree with us. - La Rochefoucauld

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. - Deborah Tannen

Politeness is the art of selecting amoung one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael

Sucess in life consists of going from one mistake to another without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Elenor Roosevelt

The art of love is largely the art of persistance. - Albert Ellis

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley

To mature is in part to realise that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. - Sissela Bok

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-tzu