love poems for sisters

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau



You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. ~Edward Abbey You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. ~Edward Abbey



My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. ~Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade



Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown



Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977



Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead



Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man? ~John A. Livingston, in Borden Spears, ed., Wilderness Canada, 1970



If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown



Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture. ~John Waters



Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bunuel



There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. ~Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times



Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866



In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. ~Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History



When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. ~Benjamin Franklin



I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995



For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault