Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com