"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
-KAHIL GIBRAN
"Youth is easy to deceive because it is quick to hope."
-ARISTOTLE
"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."
-CYRIL CONNOLLY
"With a good heredity, nature deals you a fine hand of cards;  with a good environment, you learn to play the hand well."
-WALTER C. ALVAREZ, M.D.
"By the time a man realizes that his father was usually right, he has a son who thinks he's usually wrong."
-QUENTIN CREWE
"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
-H.L. MENCKEN
"What a wonderful life I've had!  If only I'd realized it sooner."
-COLETTE
"The happy do not believe in miracles."
-JOHANN W. VON GOETHE
" There are two perfectly good people, one dead and the other unborn."
-CHINESE PROVERB
"Every household with children should have at least one revolving door."
-ELISA MEDHUS, M.D.
"You always love your children best when they are asleep."
-ASLAUG MEDHUS
"There are three things that children learn to do quickly;  how to eat, drink and get their own way."
-ELISA MEDHUS, M.D.
"Labor is blossoming or dancing where body in not bruised to pleasure soul."
-W.B.YEATS
"Nature demands a certain devotion, and she demands a period of struggling with her."
-VINCENT VAN GOGH
"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all."
-HERODOTUS
"I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be."
-WALT WHITMAN
"I am a woman giving birth to myself."
-ANONYMOUS
"It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life."
-TILLIE OLSEN
"Miracles occur, if you care to call those spasmodic tricks of radiance miracles.  The wait's begun again, the long wait for the angel, for that rare, random descent."
-SYLVIA PLATH
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
-MARGARET LEE RUNBECK
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
-SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
"The eternal female draws us onward."
-GOETHE
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
-IRISH PROVERB
"Women have simple tastes.  They can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."
-H.L.MENCKEN
"There is no wealth but life."
-JOHN RUSKIN
"The future struggles against being mastered."
-ANONYMOUS
"There is no gains without pains."
-ADLAI STEVENSON
"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece."
-VLADMIR NABOKOV
"There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age."
-BENJAMIN SPOCK
"Motherhood is a wonderful thing--what a pity to waste it on children."
-JUDITH PUGH
"The precursor of a mirror is the mother's face."
-D.W. WINNICOTT
