Change Is A Process Not An Event.

Pain Is Inevitable. Misery Is Optional

Teaching Literature Is Teaching How To Read. How To Notice Things In A Text That A Speed-reading Culture Is Trained To Disregard, Overcome, Edit Out, Or Explain Away; How To Read What The Language Is Doing, Not Guess What The Author Was Thinking; How To Take Evidence From A Page, Not Seek A Reality To Substitute For It.

Whatever It Is Probably Won't Go Away, So We Might As Well Live And Laugh Through It. When We Double Over Laughing, We're Bending So We Won't Break. If You Think Your Particular Troubles Are Too Heavy And Too Traumatic To Laugh About, Remember That Laughing Is Like Changing A Baby's Diaper. It Doesn't Solve Any Problems Permanently, But It Makes Things More Acceptable For Awhile.

Kids Can Be A Pain In The Neck When They're Not A Lump In Your Throat.

True Love Doesn't Have A Happy Ending, Because True Love Never Ends. Letting Go Is One Way Of Saying I Love You.