Childless Stepmom Quotes & Sayings

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. — Albert Einstein

Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write. — Patrick Rothfuss

Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. — David Brooks

Spiritual but not religious" is an expression of a very human yearning for an opening of mind and heart - a sense of soul and spirit that enhances day-to-day experience instead of tamping it down and channeling it into the narrow confines of stick-and-carrot orthodoxy. It's a rejection of traditional tenets and pieties, of doctrine and dogma and judgment. It resists the usual attempts to pigeonhole, saying, "Spare me your labels." It is, at heart, agnostic. - — Lesley Hazleton

I used to wonder why ... Mum kept having babies ... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing
at least at the time when you were actually making the children. The fact that it would cost you something later on, well, the working-class people never looked ahead in those days. — Margaret Powell

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared. — Chris Marker