Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
A watched child never learns.
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.