"That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway."

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Source : Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

Gloria Naylor

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.”
“A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.”
“I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.”
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
“Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.”
“Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring.”
“I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.”
“If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.”

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