SO GOOD QUOTES

  • MA: Having a family seems to be another superpower. Most of the top professionals I know have kids at home. What do you say to people who are afraid that having kids will mess up their career? 

    MGP: Having kids is what you make of it! There’s a transition period, but you can absolutely adapt them to your lifestyle, including your career. While your scheduling needs may change, it’s amazing how much more productive you become with your time. If you’re thinking about it — go for it!

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    THE HEROICALLY DESIGNED LIFE

  • Her father confessor wisely answered, “If it’s God’s will for you to be single, you wouldn’t feel like you’re settling; you’d feel peace about setting out on this path.”

    Waiting & Dating
    Lilyan Andrews

  • You can also choose to dedicate more time to God in various ways: For example, you have the freedom to show up to any church service you choose and to participate in the life of your parish in any way and as much as you would like.

    Waiting & Dating
    Lilyan Andrews

  • These might even turn out to be precious days you get with your aging parents or older family members that you will never have again. And spending time with your elders and learning from them is also vital to building your circle of guidance.

    Waiting & Dating
    Lilyan Andrews

  • The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its shape, but it’s always there.

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • “Those who search for intimacy with others are reacting to this longing. They think another human will fulfill them. But how many of us have actually ever been totally fulfilled by another person?”

    Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Pain of Separation
    (via Bittersweet, Susan Cain)

  • Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other, that sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • The great unhappiness of her life was that she had never married.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “Try to remember Neil and how you felt about him.” “It’s hard to believe, but I was crazy about him.” “Yes, you can say that, but you can’t feel it.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • “I don’t believe in marriage, and I have no time for it,” he said. “If you do what you really should do, you will have what you want.”

    Light Years
    James Salter