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Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage QUOTES

Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage QUOTES

1 " Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

2 " If you're bored, you're boring. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

3 " Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn! "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

4 " I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

5 " When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

6 " Fill your life with trustworthy friends, and don't drop them should you fall in love. They can be your guides should you lose track of what is important. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

7 " I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

8 " Hold on a minute. Do you really think that somebody this special would have managed to live his or her entire life without making any connections before he or she encountered you? So be careful if somebody seems too good to be true. The best partners are just good enough to be true, and get better with age. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

9 " Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

10 " Like Popeye says, “I yam what I yam.” And I know that Harry and I did the best we could, making it all up as we went along. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

11 " When you work hard, the temptation is to come home and just plotz (which is Jewish for “relax,” or maybe “die,” depending on the context)—to throw your dirty clothes on the floor or hide a mess behind closet doors. This is not a new story. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

12 " It’s funny, you start out with nothing, and you work hard, and you end up with homes and boats and children. That’s the American dream, and I guess that we lived it. But it was a time when you could work hard and get ahead. I don’t think the world is the same anymore "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

13 " I think that mere distance cannot break the bond between grandparents and their grandchildren. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

14 " If you are as fortunate as I have been, one day you will wake up and realize that you’re not young anymore, and you’re not even middle-aged. But don’t worry, you’re not old—you’ve simply entered what I like to call the Bonus Years. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

15 " I think it’s human nature to have episodes of unhappiness, and these don’t necessarily have much to do with the reality of your day-to-day life. But if everything’s objectively going great, it can be quite disorienting to realize that you’ve got the blues, and like a bad bruise, if you’re not careful, those blues can turn purple on their way to turning black. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

16 " If you should have a choice of whether to laugh or to cry, laugh. Laughing makes you stronger, and it does not diminish the seriousness of a situation. I think instead of turning an already bad situation into a tragedy, make it into a comic strip. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

17 " Have you ever noticed that you can’t spell dangerous without anger? I’m no linguist, but I don’t think that’s a coincidence. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

18 " If you think of your life as just a series of problems to be solved, you’re going to be pretty anxious. I prefer to look at problems as speed bumps on an otherwise smooth and open highway—and as long as this is my metaphor, I might as well imagine that I’m driving in a little red convertible with my driving gloves and sunglasses on. Pretty cute, aren’t I? "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

19 " Remember, everybody is ridiculous. If you can laugh at yourself, you can get through anything. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

20 " I never have tried to be something I am not. "

― Barbara "Cutie" Cooper , Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage