Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
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 Rick Warren
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.
