We made a birthday card for a friend who is coping with the end of a relationship while musing on her mid life arrival. Here are some of the quotes harkening to the authors we read from on Thanksgiving that we put on her card – another friend of hers called it a sad card. Really? Then you view life as sad.<\/p>\n
“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.” \u00a0Wallace Stegner<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.\u201d Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n
\u201cThe art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.\u201d Elizabeth Bishop<\/p>\n
\u201cLove is my religion – I could die for it.\u201d John Keats<\/p>\n
\u201cIn three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.\u201d Robert Frost<\/p>\n
\u201cHumor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.\u201d Langston Hughes<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long.\u201d Constantine Peter Cavafy<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not regret growing older.\u00a0 It is a privilege denied to many.\u201d\u00a0 ~Author Unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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