Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment. – William Shakespeare Category: Love
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Love
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke Category: Love
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. – Katharine Whitehorn, “Nought for Homework,” Roundabout, 1962 Category: Housework
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. – Nancy Mitford Category: Family