You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.
Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.