Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Do you recognize his song? It’s Irving Berlin’s ‘Always,’ my favorite. How I miss those sentimental melodies. We live in such an unsentimental time.
They say, ‘Happy Hour, five to seven.’” She laughed. “Imagine scheduling a time to be happy.”
If you have order in your home, it offers a refuge and helps you face disorder in the outside world.”
“They talk about friendly divorce. If you’re so friendly, why get a divorce?
Ruthie said to me, ‘You mustn’t ever take it personally.’ But there is no other way you can take it. It’s always personal, and you never forget.
“You must realize that success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success. I learned this lesson early.”
“I’ve always been inspired by anger. I
“It was very reassuring, and it gave me great confidence to know that my mother believed in me that way. I can never understand parents who undermine their children.
“Compatibility. That is the most important word in any relationship. Passion passes, you know. Passion is easier to find than compatibility.
Sometimes, there’s nothing harder to believe than the truth.”
There are a lot of people who don’t want to take any risk. Some of them are just bloody lazy. Lazy is more rampant than you can believe. Then there are the ones who don’t know any better. I got into trouble because I was a perfectionist. It doesn’t mean I did things perfectly. It just means I wanted to.
Then, if you ask and expect others to reach for your standards, they hate you. On those rare occasions in life when finally you do please yourself, no one notices. But until you are called ‘difficult,’ you aren’t anyone.”
You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.’
Wit, especially sarcasm, is a dangerous weapon. Bright people are too often sarcastic.
“Sometimes the shortest distance between two points of view is a straight lie.
“the only way to be perfectly punctual is to be perfectly early.”
You don’t want to be hurt. But unless you can trust, you aren’t open to life, and when you aren’t open to life, you are old, whatever age you are.
“Everyone needs to be ‘us’ instead of ‘me.’ There’s nothing in life worth having unless you have someone to share it with. Person-toperson—that’s what life is all about.
