Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing alongs, ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death, particularly when -- remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless chotski.
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)
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Eve Ensler
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
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Yoko Ono
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
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Lynsay Sands
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also...
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Mitch Albom
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell...
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Douglas Coupland
More Quotes By Sara Gruen
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
Sometimes when you get older–and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently–things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if...
I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.
After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
