"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."

-- Phyllis McGinley

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“And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.”
“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.95, Penguin
“The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.”
“At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.”
“Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.”
“Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.”
“...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.”
“I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.”

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