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> [as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florida-scott-maxwell/as-we-age-we-are-more-alive-than-seems-likely-convenient-or-even/)

[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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