#aging

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#mistake #unnecessary #waging #war

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that has really has more to do with personality- the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom- almost never -even proposition. Someone always loves more. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love #love-hurts #love

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#inspirational #life #mortality #age

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing ↗

— Michael Chabon

#essay #life-s-challenges #age

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#aging-well #fascinating #maturing #age

Time erodes us all. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#bodies #death #deterioration #time #age

Your best is good enough. ↗

— Vivian E. Greenberg

#family-relationships #inspirational #life #age

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#aging #dread #youth #age

Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant. ↗

— Questlove

#feelings #life #age