"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer."

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Source : "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.

Jennifer Weiner

#Mother Quotes #Law Quotes #Serenity Quotes

“I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.”
“If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.”
“I live like a crazy old pack rat.”
“The great problems of lifeâ€”sexuality, of course, among othersâ€”are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.”
“When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.”
“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.”
“I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.”
“We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.”

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