Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
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Stephen King
You are never too old to become younger!
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Mae West
It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events...
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Nicole Krauss
Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.
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Richard Rohr
More Quotes By Gina MarinelloSweeney
Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.
Two years could change so much under the facade of changing nothing at all.
He had not been tossed aside by time, but lost in it.
It was a gaze that held the comfort of familiarity. There was no mystery, no enigmatic depth, but unrestrained length, the length of years–the laughter of childhood games and Christmas carols of home– lining its pathways with simple, yet easily overlooked, understanding.
Yes, it is, ” I whispered, “and one day the spell will not cause you to forget it.
