#age

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. ↗

— John McGahern

#forever #going #i #i think #important

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#eager #entertainment #i #never #rather

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humanity #inspirational #age

Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter. Think like a woman with three teenage sons who once ran a golf cart into the side of their granddad's house." "Cameron and Sean shouldn't have let me drive," Adam said in his own defense. "I was seven." "You shouldn't have ASKED to drive. You were seven. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#adam-vader #boys-next-door #comedy #echols #endless-summer

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#religion #age

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. ↗

— Larry Wall

#change #determinism #fatalism #free-will #change

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#any #feel #giving #golfer #i

Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#age

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. ↗

— Bette Midler

#after #body #mind #own #thirty