Dear Abbey
Dear Abbey
couple moving gay
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
yesterday new-day mouths
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
mother motherhood mothering
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
loneliness being-alone poverty
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
fighting fire ashes
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
life success business
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
dream country believe
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
inspirational adversity want
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
inspirational habit disappear
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
water may pay
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
life friendship family
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
father sick remembrance
O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
You are what you are when nobody is looking.
museums religion church
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.