#age

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them. ↗

— Colin Beavan

#parenting #teaching #age

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#earth #galaxy #sun #universe #age

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting ↗

— Laura Marling

#age

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#age

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#marriage #soldier #war #world-war-ii #age

LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #women #age

Whenever I hear the words, “How old are you,” I stutter for an answer: My chronological age is a matter of years in existence, my biological age is vital, my psychological age is growing, my emotional age is mature, my functional age is young. ↗

— N. Vita More

#age

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement. ↗

— Zygmunt Bauman

#social #social-rights #age

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brain #compatibility #difference #differences #friendship