#ch

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#called #future #victims

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#because #close #close friends #contribute #friends

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #deserve #earned #end #face

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#accident #automobile #bracket #girdle #higher

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#each #even #keeps #love #love is

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #connection #give #hard #hope

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#could #husband #i #such #wife

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

Trust not too much to appearances. ↗

— Virgil

#appearances #much #too #too much

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good