#wi

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fear #jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wisdom #age

The ages live in history through their anachronisms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #wilde #age

People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance. ↗

— John Jordan Jordan Vineyard Winery

#divorce #wine #age

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#human-nature #humanity #inspirational #truth #wisdom

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#hope #optimism #snow #winter #age

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

#sufi-wisdom #age

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever… ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#coming-of-age #growing-up #paddy-clarke #roddy-doyle #age

The Biblical account describing God as an eagle teaching his eaglets to fly is exactly the process readers go through as they work through the chapters of this book. "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions." Deut. 32:11 ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#eagle-s-wings #age

Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#age

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#confess #girlfriend #great #guys #help