Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

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About Lillian Gordy Carter

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Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (née Gordy; August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was an American nurse. She is most known as the mother of Jimmy Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She was also known for her contributions as a...

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Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

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Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

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Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen.

—Angela N. Blount in Once Upon A Road Trip

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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When people care about each other, they always find a way to make it work.

—Nicholas Sparks in True Believer

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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love

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