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> [life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/life-is-a-tragic-mystery-we-are-pierced-and-driven-by-laws-we-only/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

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## More by Florida Scott-Maxwell

> [Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/making-those-we-love-happy-sounds-innocent-as-a-dove-but-it-can-be-as/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/no-matter-how-old-a-mother-is-she-watches-her-middle-aged-children/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/life-does-not-accommodate-you-it-shatters-you-every-seed-destroys-its/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/as-i-do-not-live-in-an-age-when-rustling-black-skirts-billow-about-me/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/you-need-only-claim-the-events-of-your-life-to-make-yourself-yours/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/life-is-a-tragic-mystery-we-are-pierced-and-driven-by-laws-we-only/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/claim-the-events-of-your-life-when-you-posses-all-you-have-been-and/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [love at any age takes everything you've got.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/love-at-any-age-takes-everything-you-ve-got/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [“You have neat, tight expectation of what life out to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does. Life does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/you-have-neat-tight-expectation-of-what-life-out-to-give-you-but-you/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/anger-must-be-the-energy-that-has-not-yet-found-its-fight-channel/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/is-life-a-pregnancy-that-would-make-death-a-birth/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/difference-of-opinion-has-never-been-sufficiently-appreciated-it-is/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/it-sometimes-looks-as-though-woman-would-not-be-woman-unless-man/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/the-enchantment-of-the-sky-ever-changing-beauty-almost-ignored-beyond/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

> [ She \[a mother\] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/she-a-mother-never-outgrows-the-burden-of-love-and-to-the-end-she/)

[Florida Scott-Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florida-scott-maxwell/)

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