"Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs."

-- Betty Friedan

#Opportunity Quotes #Bad Ass Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.”
“Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.”
“When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.”
“Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.”
“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
“Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.”
“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”

Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 229), 1896.
“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

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