Élisabeth Badinter quote: "Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)"

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO

Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO

Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO

The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO

We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO

Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO

I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO

We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO

I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL

I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD

It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE

Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE

It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
ELIZABETH BERG

You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD

A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS

…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS

Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE

Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY

We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love...
DAPHNE RAE

A life not lived for others is not a life.
MOTHER TERESA

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the ...
MOTHER TERESA

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
PAMELA VAULL STARR

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
MOTHER TERESA

God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His co...
MOTHER TERESA

Live simply so others may simply live.
MOTHER TERESA

Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.
ANONOMYOUS.

My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.

Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
CARLA BRUNI

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS

He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE

The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, m...
MATT HAIG

If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON

There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ...
AMY TAN

Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I

He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT

She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE

Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

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Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

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