#in

She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves. ↗

— Debra Dean

#alzheimer-s #age

A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#music #perfection #singing #siren #age

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#self-esteem #travel #age

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily. ↗

— M.C. Beaton

#age #age

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#crook #doing #fear #honest #honest man

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#youth #age

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#being-yourself #middle-age #age

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film. ↗

— Sean Young

#exciting #film #find #i #incredible