866 quotes found
“We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.”
“I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screechin...”
“There is nothing that anyone can get past a forty-five-year-old woman. We laugh hard, the first honest sound I make that afternoon, or in many days, each of us feeling the ravages of experience, ou...”
“We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger communitys apparent belief that older women are sl...”
“I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming wa...”
“We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences be they positive or negative make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river, those same experienc...”
“...I have decided that I shan't sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to work my a...”
“Never had anyone said, "Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if...”
“It takes courage to dream, to face our futures and the limiting forces within us. It takes courage to be determined that, as we slow down physically, we are going to grow even more psychologically ...”
“Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...”
“People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a ...”
“Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are a...”
“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.”
“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk tha...”
“[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesnt have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are...”
“[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they dont exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, retouching artists co...”
“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”
“But when youre a kid, it isnt chaos. Its just a heartbeat. Your house isnt floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors...”
“When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making lifes imperative to grow personal. As long as w...”
“Why do you paint, Nona?"...'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.”
