"The cure for anything is salt water--sweat, tears, or the sea." ~Isak Dinesen

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." ~Kurt Vonnegut 

"Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counterproductivity." ~Erma Bombeck 

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." ~Martha Washington 

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." ~Oscar Wilde 

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." ~Peter De Vries 

"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself--he'll never cease to be amused." ~Unknown 

"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."  ~Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)