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