“Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.” WorldEducationWonderOur LivesBabyOld World Author:Glenn Frey
“If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.” IfsWorldWellsChildrenGrowthOur LivesSeaBabySucceedClaimsDisappointmentGuidesRageShipsTendenciesDespiteChairsLastingAdulthoodBehaviourSavagesEquilibriumExhaustionExteriorSmall ChildHystericalImbalanceManiaDisappointment Love Author:Alain de Botton
“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.” IfsFallCoursesMistakeOur LivesFateBabyShapesFalling In LoveWho We AreCarrieSex And The CityMr Big Author:Michael Patrick King
“In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindHelpingCareJobsLostOur LivesDoorsBabySickSouthCakeLoved OnesFeel BetterPieMommaMy Momma Author:Kimberly Schlapman
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!” PeopleIfsHas BeensStillsDifferentAmericaGirlThreeAttitudeClearOur LivesCuttingBabyCatholicAppearanceImpressionAfrican AmericanInternalsCapabilityThree TimesClassification Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.” Our LivesBabyShockParenthoodPanicPostpartum Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent
“Peanut butter and lamb chops were not foods that had ever been a significant part of our life before pregnancy. In fact, my wife almost never ate either.So where did these craving come from? I concluded it's the baby, ordering in.” FactsOur LivesWifeBabyMy WifeSignificantPregnancyCravingLambsPeanutsPeanut Butter Author:Paul Reiser
“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.” MomentsDiesTurnsFallBornOur LivesEmotionalBabyFalling In LoveBelovedPoetry IsBeloved Friends Author:Erica Jong
“We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.” WorldWellsCharacterJoySocialGriefOur LivesShareMinutesHonestMediaBabyBirthDemandMassDatingPressureDetailsSocial MediaPostsOpennessOur RelationshipSiteConstructsNetworkingInstagramPersonaAppsOur WeddingNetworking SitesBaby PicturesWedding Pictures Author:Alexander Weinstein
“What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.” MenLooksStillsBookRunningWiseOur LivesBabySimplicityKitchenChairsSteadyCircusMultiplicityCarriagesParasols Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartFallCoursesCitiesMistakeOur LivesFateBabyShapesLuckyAll ThingsFalling In LovePlanesWho We AreCarrieThings ChangeComfortingSex And The CityMerry Go RoundMr BigPlane Rides Author:Candace Bushnell
“There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.” IfsShouldLooksChildrenFacesMotherWonderOur LivesBrokenBabyMetsShould HaveOur ChildrenI RealizedLegion Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel