Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.