Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Busybodies Copy Share Image
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Children Copy Share Image
“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.” — Florida Scott-Maxwell Life Copy Share Image
As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Life Copy Share Image
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Accepting Copy Share Image
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Claims Copy Share Image
“You have neat, tight expectation of what life out to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Life Copy Share Image
Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Anger Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Appreciated Copy Share Image
It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Approach Copy Share Image
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Beauty Copy Share Image
She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Active Copy Share Image
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Accommodate Copy Share Image
I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Alive Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Admiration Copy Share Image
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Another way Copy Share Image
One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship;… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Core Copy Share Image
We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Discovery Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
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