"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing."

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Source : Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.429, Ballantine Books

Gail Sheehy

#Growing Quotes #Awakening Quotes #Aging Quotes

“Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.”

Source : "Domenico Scarlatti: 30 Sonatas".
“Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.”
“Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.”
“It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70...”
“As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.”
“He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.”
“To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.”

Source : W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.12, Shambhala Publications
“The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

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