Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott Maxwell
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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