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I believe there are three tenants to live by in this apartment called Life: Love is empowering, Fear is motivating, and Passion is fruit. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #passion #age

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#age

Old is always fifteen years from now. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fifteen #now #old #teen years #years

You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce my fragile flesh. I shall love you when the light in my own eyes fades for good and yours is the last sweet face I see. Because I am and ever shall be… ↗

— Teresa Medeiros

#age

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aging #color #growth #old-age #peach

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back ↗

— Sara Gruen

#age

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #age

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. ↗

— Manly P. Hall

#philosophy-of-life #age

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#am #competent #extraordinary #i #i am