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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~Sydney J. Harris



The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. ~Ashley Montague



Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown



To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved



If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein



To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard



The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson



What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith



They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not. ~Clarence Darrow



Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid



I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln



I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own. ~Orson Scott Card



Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards



It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ~Author Unknown



You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side. ~Author Unknown



Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979



I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx



A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec



A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir



Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~Ellen Frankfort