#ration

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#achievements #concentration #electronics #information #reality

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! ↗

— Théophile Thoré

#carpe-diem #inspiration #regret #youth #age

When you are a real queen, there is absolutely no reason to try and make people believe that you are one. Because you just are. Life is lived with grace, courage, and serenity. If you must dedicate any amount of time and mental ability to making anyone believe that you are one; you're not! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-womens-quotes #living-with-grace #queen #serenity #true-queen

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it. ↗

— Vimal Athithan

#experience-inspiration #life #maturity #age

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#age

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frustration #gameboard-of-the-gods #outsider #age

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up ↗

— John Hively

#growing-old #growing-up #inspirational #age

Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning. ↗

— L. Michael Hager

#age

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#relationships #separation #life