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Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?
It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.