"Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting……" — Florida Scott-Maxwell

"Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive."

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

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17 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Florida Scott-Maxwell has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I grow more intense as I age.
Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed…
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and…
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties…
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or…
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This…
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost…
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that…
I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they…

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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me… — James A. Baldwin
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr

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