#ge

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#judgement #life #old-age #age

If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again. ↗

— Siobhan Vivian

#creativity #misery #change

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#buzz #country #dreamed #every #every time

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex. ↗

— Diana Athill

#life #sex #somewhere-towards-the-end #women #age

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#changes #done #full #now #preserve

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #age

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast. ↗

— Mark Edmundson

#age

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#anything #band #does #feeling #get

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#wisdom #age

I was jealous of [Nora] at first, because she had prettier dresses and the naturally curly hair that had been my ultimate worldly desire at that age. In fact, when our mothers initially introduced us, i had chosen to greet her by yanking on a fistful of her hair to see if it was real. Her response was to deck me in the nose. It had been love at first fight. ↗

— Lia Habel

#age