"A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life."

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Source : "Fictional character: Maude". "Harold and Maude", www.imdb.com. 1971.

Ruth Gordon

#People Quotes #Aging Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama”
“I want to be the most durable person on the planet.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.”
“When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.”

Source : 'To Althea, From Prison'
“I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.”
“Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.”
“I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

Source : "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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