being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. - Anna Quindlen
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
- Anna Quindlen
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. - Anna Quindlen
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured … - Anna Quindlen
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured …
I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. … - Anna Quindlen
I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. …
My mother was an incredibly loving mother. - Anna Quindlen
My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
Today is the only guarantee you get. - Anna Quindlen
Today is the only guarantee you get.
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the… - Anna Quindlen
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the…
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. - Anna Quindlen
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard,… - Anna Quindlen
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard,…
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