Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City. Votes: 12
... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be. Votes: 4
A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind. Votes: 3
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. Votes: 2
If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised. Votes: 0
If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen. Votes: 0
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. Votes: 0
There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own. Votes: 0