What You Are In This Life

"You are in this life to develop yourself. You are here to learn and grow. Your job is not to develop anyone else, just you. Consequently, you must be around like-minded individuals to survive."

-- Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley

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"It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive."

-- Joan Didion


"Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family."

-- May Sarton