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 Donald Kingsbury
For a purpose without reason
One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.
He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.
