#de

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

There is a sort of mental treason That smothers dreams outside of reason ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #irreverent-humor

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#numbers #age

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#men #wishes #women #death

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. ↗

— Bernie Sanders

#below #child #current #federal #full-time

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#accept #child #conflict #differing #education

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#correspondent #goal #i #network #time

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#lds #religious #uplifting #death

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#him #honest #howard #howard dean #hung