To come to know the value of a year, ask a student who failed his finals.
To come to know the value of a month, ask a mother who bore a premature child.
To come to know the value of a week, ask the publisher of a weekly magazine.
To come to know the value of an hour, ask two lovers who are waiting for each other.
To come to know the value of a minute, ask someone who has missed his plane.
To come to know the value of a second, ask someone who has survived an accident.
To come to know the value of a millisecond, ask someone who won a silver medal at the Olympics.
Time waits for no one. Seize each moment because it is precious. Share it with a special friend, and it becomes priceless.
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It is easy to avoid criticism. All you have to do is say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.
For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.
–Mark Twain
For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.
Happiness lies ahead for those who cry; those who hurt; those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.
Just when you think you have graduated from the school of experience,
along comes a whole new course.
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You know you’re in trouble when you realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
–Author unknown
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next.
From Gild Radner’s Delicious Ambiguity
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Life isn’t what happens to us. It’s about how we perceive what happens to us.
–Author unknown
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Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.
A frog was caught in a deep rut. In spite of the help of his friends, he couldn’t get out. They finally left him there in despair. The next day, one of his friends saw him hopping about outside the rut as chipper as could be. “What are you doing here?” the friend asked. “I thought you couldn’t get out?”
“I couldn’t,” the frog replied, “but a big truck came down the road and I had to get out.”
Some of us are living beneath our capabilities. Because we cannot do great things, we are inclined not to do anything.
–Author unknown
For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic or current events, people, places or food.
Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.
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